PROBLEM OF COLLEGE DEMOCRACY

In his address to the Territorial Clubs last night, Dr. A. P. Fitch '00 declared that the great problem before the University today is the amalgamation of its three separate social classes into one homogeneous democratic body.

Dr. Fitch outlined the groups as the complacent provincialists, the conscientious provincialists, and the bitter provincialists. The first are the private school men, who draw together naturally and unconsciously by reason of their similar training and vast interests in common; the second are the public school men, sprung from the so-called "middle classes," who hold off from the first group partly from disapproval and partly from disapproval and partly from inability to break social barriers; and the third, a group far greater than is generally realized, consists of those who have, by dint of extraordinary grit and determination, worked their rough-hewn way to learning. If these three classes could be welded together, and if the consequent result could be brought clearly before the nation's eyes, Dr. Fitch feels that Harvard will have gone far toward setting a firm claim on the title of "the national university." At present, it is the duty of every undergraduate to help create abroad the impression that Harvard is the home of true college democracy, where every man with character, brains and resolution can, regardless of money, family, and social position, stand on his own feet and attain a high place in undergraduate life.

Territorial Club Problems.

After Dr. Fitch's talk, there was an informal discussion in which the affairs of the Territorial Clubs received deep consideration. The problem of injecting more sociability into the meetings, and the task of carrying through the work on the hand-book were acclaimed the most imminent, and it was decided to meet both questions by more closely binding together the separate clubs through a union of the different officers into one common committee. No further action was taken and the hand-book is no nearer publication than before. The attendance at the meeting was discouragingly small.