Broken on the Wheel

At last a really significant student demonstration in one of our American institutions of higher learning, and our faith in the colleges is restored. The students of St. Lawrence University, incensed at the calling off of the upper-class "padding bee" for freshmen, presented an ultimatum demanding the extension of time for parties until 2.30 a.m. and the abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action. Let those who despair of American students note the incident and take courage; for the spirit of Lexington and Bunker Hill is not dead. Consider a strike against all extra-curricular activities with the baseball season nearing its culmination and outdoor theatricals and Commencement festivities approaching! The blood in the snow at Valley Forge becomes pale pink by comparison, and Gandhi's non-resistance movement in India appears like a Sunday school picnic. Owen D. Young to the rescue! Let not this threatened sacrifice of our dauntless young heroes become a grisly reality! The Nation.