Colleges and Congress.

Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale a few years ago. The University of Virginia comes next with 20 of its sons in Congress. Then in order are Harvard, 19; Yale, 13; Wisconsin, ten; Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, seven each; Minnesota, Iowa and Georgia, six each.

Note that nine of the 11 institutions that have more than five alumni in Congress are state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other's shoulders at a college fraternity reunion. Boston Herald.