THE DISGRUNTLED FRESHMAN

While the Seniors are availing themselves of the advantages offered by the Appointment Office, and are preparing to become active producers in the marts of the business world, the rest of us are apt to watch them with a feeling of envy. Lower-classmen, Freshmen especially, look ahead two or three more years of college, and wonder just how much it will mean to them. The possibility that Edison may be right occurs to them perhaps. At any rate there is a great deal of talk about "not coming back." "Spring fever becomes an epidemic".

All this restlessness is only natural; but there are some facts trite and worn from repetition perhaps but which should nevertheless be constantly remembered in connection with it. The first of these is that the world is more in need of trained than of untrained, men; and the second is, that the fact that a Freshman feels his first year wasted is no proof that the colleges are incapable of giving the needed training.

The age-old scoffing of the world at the benefits of a college education has a plausible ring to the disgruntled Freshman. It is such an easy way for him to explain why he has gained nothing in college by declaring that there was nothing to be gained. Statistics of the number of college graduates who hold high stations in the world have little effect on him, and that is not unnatural. The value of Harvard training cannot be proved by figures.

There is only one thing that can be said to the dissatisfied. Harvard will do very little for you unless you do something for her.