THE PRESS

. . . . The Quadwrangler approves of the arrangement as he approves of any device calculated to put more emphasis on either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached to the meet this year because thing is new. Once it's an old story about the only persons who will know anything about it will be those who take part. --The Boston Transcript.