THE PRESS

"Up at Harvard, which is in Massachusetts, someone has thought of a new idea. It must have been a student." So runs a despatch, announcing the introduction of a system that allows students to drop in at classes whenever and wherever they please. Thinking it over, our own Liberal Arts School might see something in the idea, even if it does come from Harvard. There are at Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents now and then. Penn State (so far removed from civilization that even the Pennsylvania Railroad can play tyrant with its hears no voice from afar except in Sunday Chapel, when occasionally a minister from Altoona and even Philadelphia may lecture. And it seems that any opportunity that would enable students to listen to the greatest of their own faculty ought to be welcomed by that body.

In brief, the new idea of which Harvard is so proud, is to allow students to attend classes in which they are not registered. The only objection we can think of is from the Treasurer's office, but it is reasonable to assume that if a student takes the trouble to attend a course for which he does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that is a lie. We know several. Penn State Collegian.