UNDERGRADUATE LITERATI.

The New York Evening Post, in a recent editorial pointed out that there has been a marked decline during the last few years, in the amount and quality of the literary output from the colleges. Things have changed since Bryant published his "Thanatopsis" in the North American Review. Almost every other department of college activity has seen a marked rise in efficiency, and there is no reason why this field should be left undeveloped. Recent "college fiction" has shown the acute need of sanity and skill in this field, at least. It is no logical objection to say that the undergraduate is not mature enough to write for the average reader. It is not so great a task to produce very readable fiction. There are numerous fields open to the ambitious author. He can try his hand at the short story or the lucrative moving picture scenario. The latter seems to be a singularly felicitous medium for the undergraduates.

Another field is the writing of articles on civic and economic subjects for the various technical journals. There are a number of these periodicals which welcome such articles as accounts of municipal experiments or reforms written from personal experience. No one is so well fitted to prepare these both in leisure and in materials as the average college student.

Yet in strengthening his own financial and literary status, the student should take care not to trade on the good name of his University. Regrettable as it is, there have been always those, ready, for the pecuniary reward, to feature the life and customs of their college in an undesirable light. No matter how great the price, it is not worth selling the esteem and regard of one's associates.