TARDY SCHOLARSHIP REWARDS.

It is a continual cry on the part of college authorities that the athlete is exalted at the expense of the scholar, that more attention is paid to the college letter than to the Phi Beta Kappa key. It would then seem reasonable that the "Office" should endeavor to provide every incentive towards higher grades. But this hardly appears to be done.

A Freshman gets several A's. Finally, in the autumn of his Sophomore year, his name appears in the CRIMSON, and he receives a notice that he has won a John Harvard Scholarship. He may hear in a vague way that there is such a thing as a Detur,--a most mysterious object,--attached to a John Harvard Scholarship. No official communication about it reaches him, but at length he learns that it is a book, and that it must be applied for. Upon application, it develops that it is not given out until after the Commencement of his Sophomore year. So presumably he applies at the Office and gets his book in the autumn of his Junior year, having waited six months before even knowing of his winning the scholarship, and a year and a half before receiving any concrete recognition of the fact. Undoubtedly scholarship should be its own reward; but applying the same rule to athletics, Freshman numerals would not be given out until Junior year. A more prompt recognition of scholarly work is the remedy.