THE MOTORIZED CAMPUS

Scholastic glory will have more than words of praise with which to reward its seekers if the suggestion made by a professor of Oberlin College is adopted. His proposal is that a sports model roadster be given along with the traditional key to those receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors, thus making it a prize ate. More incentive to study is needed, worth the efforts of every undergradu-according to the professor, and the best way to supply it is to offer as reward-things that the student really wants.

No doubt the professor had the best of intentions when he made his suggestion, but its results might not be a that he expected. A scale could be readily arranged between the Mercedes for The head man of the class and a second-hand Ford for the lowest to qualify, with perhaps a few bicycles as consolation prizes for those who failed but could the move stop at that? Interest in studies and the popularity of Ph. Beta Kappa men would increase by leaps and bounds, but what athletic star would not feel slighted by the discrimination exercised against him? To meet his demands and the claims of prominent students in every other field the college would have to choose between bankruptey and civil war, with the odds favoring the slighted groups to come out ahead. To avoid such a catastrophe it is to be hoped Oberlin raises its professor's salary and gives him a new car in the bargain before he can put such a dangerous theory into practice.