NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES.

There are many opportunities for intellectual improvement which the students in the University in their too fervent devotion to "activities" overlook completely.

Prominent among these is the Fogg Art Museum, which has just announced a special exhibit of famous paintings. A census of the students who will visit the Museum to see this collection, or, indeed who will visit it to see any collection, would undoubtedly bring out the fact that a pitifully small number of men are availing themselves of an opportunity which is at their very door. If there is a Harvard indifference, this is it, and in its worst form. Perhaps a better word for it is thoughtlessness.

Criticism has been levelled at the members of the University on the ground that they do not take a real interest in activities which come under the general caption of "cultural." The Crimson does not believe that there is as much truth in this criticism as current periodicals attach to it. It is thoughtlessness, not callousness.

The best way to overcome this disreguard of the extra-curriculum activities which are really valuable, is to get in the habit of going to the special exhibits at the Fogg and other art museums, to see concerts and recitals which Boston offers, and to the lectures and discussions in and about the University.