THE LIGHT THAT FAILED

Biological knowledge at New Haven, it seems, is reducible to the limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a blind scholar, equipped with the necessary intelligence, when the weekly quiz came around the sly Yale boys just counted the taps on his typewriter and with rapid manipulation of their fingers were able to decipher the opinion of the blind Homer on the subject at hand. The resulting standard of infallibility was, of course, of short duration for the authorities took steps to quell such intellectual insubordination. Too much perfection in a Yale man, they realized, was a dangerous thing.

One can not but deplore such a situation in one of the nation's greatest universities where Sterling grades in the fundamentals of Biology are the result of nothing more than a typewriter racket.