YALE'S HOROSCOPE

Leaving the world pence and the reparations hanging in abeyance for the moment, the debating teams of Yale and Smith have turned their attentions nearer home. Smith has been defending the introduction of co-education at Yale, saying that old Eli should "give a rousing cheer to any women who want to sit with the men through their lectures on trigonometry or medieval history."

Men of Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life."

Notwithstanding Northampton's brave rhetoric, Harvard and Radcliffe are as close now as two such constellations can well be without perturbation of the planets under the Zodiacal high-sign of Virgo. Such a nicety of balance exists that, though celestial bodies remain undisturbed in their several classrooms, yet an isolated meteorite may drop into Dunster House of a Sunday afternoon, and now and then a Radcliffe shooting star leaves its trail in the night sky.

But Yale debaters, scorning such sophistry as this, said simply but pregnantly: "Yale has its traditions to maintain."