THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

There seems to be a well-established conviction that college Freshmen have a regrettable lack of familiarity with the Facts of Life. Hence the compulsory course in sex-hygiene, which in its present vague character amounts to little more than a useless drain of a first-year man's time. The lectures give a mere smattering of elementary physiology and deep-breathing; and only a few of them are actually concerned with sex hygiene.

There is a genuine need for a course along this line, which, intelligently directed might be of considerable value to the embryonic sophisticates of the Yard. That the problem can be solved only by complete reorganization of the present course is also evident. The simple health data could well be compressed into a few lectures. A series of small meetings for the discussion of sex problems, similar to those which Dr. Worcester now gives on request, and at which attendance might be compulsory, would be more than adequate to take care of the main function of the present rambling curriculum. The advantages which a small meeting possesses for instruction in sex hygiene are fairly obvious. Lastly, the examination in the course, which has become a joke should be abolished. Were all this done, each of the two purposes for which Hygiene is now intended would be attained, instead of hampering each other as in the present hybrid state of the course.