EXCHANGING PROFESSORS.

That the business of uniting the educational institutions of the East and West by many common bonds is going forward rapidly is evidenced by the encouraging comment on the University exchanges with Western colleges which appears in today's CRIMSON.

Every act that makes for closer harmony and co-operation between the Universities and colleges of the country is a step in the right direction. Rivalry, other than athletic, is ridiculous, unless in be a friendly rivalry for higher standards and wider service. Athletic rivalry is good. As in the case of Michigan it stimulates friendship and helps two universities to understand each other better.

The extension of the system of exchanging professors is desirable as a means of bringing colleges and universities widely separated geographically in the closest possible touch with one another.