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Few Students need to be told how easily course work can accumulate, and lucky is that undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should not.

If such be the case, these pills are medical miracles, and Harvard men should pass on the blessing to the rest of the world in large-faced type. But to every action, according to physics, there is a reaction; and after every stimulant, whether caffein or marijuana, therefore, comes a let-down. Perhaps it is slight; perhaps the effect is scarcely noticeable; but there is an effect. Taking caffein pills without doctor's orders might well lead to insomnia and general irritability. This certainly is no way to finish an evamination, nor is it the easy path toward resumption of studies. On the contrary, the ensuing let-down may prove scholastically lethal.