"HE EARNED HIS WAY--"

That the student employment bureau is to function in earnest comes as good news for all. Statistics were hardly necessary to prove that Harvard has been behind other universities in smoothing out the financial difficulties of a college career. While the Committee on Vocations reports a high degree of success in its efforts toward placing men after graduation, and the present bureau has always handled well requests for summer positions, there has been not enough of that more important aid throughout the college year to which that revised bureau will especially devote itself. It is the lack of such encouragement that has kept many highly desirable men from attending the University.

The personnel of the committee which is directing the change guarantees that it will not be another halfhearted attempt to alter matters for the better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem now.

But to make certain such success more than verbal approval is needed. On the one hand, graduates who are conducting businesses in the vicinity can cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help.