Article July 29, 1922 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Harlan P. Beach, W. S. Clark, Carleton E. Preston

["The Quality of the Student," from What the Colleges Are Doing, Boston, Mass.]

To those who see in the American college group simply a cross section of American national life, certainly no worse and unquestionably much better than the average, because it is a selected group, busied, incidentally at least, with the higher aspects of our civilization, it is refreshing to read such tributes as that which Professor Yeomans of Harvard recently made public on the occasion of his retirement from the office of dean:

"Irrespective of the effects of the war, the student body as a whole is more responsible and more sensible of its obligations to the community than it was twenty or even ten years ago.... The student works more and he works more intelligently than he used to do."

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