Show J 6 COLLEGES NOT SO BAD I San Francisco Chronicle The Tho wide nation-wide survey conducted conduct conduct- ed by the Literary Digest into the tile habits of ot sobriety or of the undergraduates of our colleges and universities ought to be reassuring to those who refuse to believe that these Institutions have fallen on evil days Much fuch Iras been heard that liquor drinking has become commoner commoner com conF- moner moner than before among students that hip flasks are aro a as as textbooks and that If a knowledge l e of ot the formula for gin were the only requirement most students could qualify for tor a degree The only thing wrong with this picture heads of co colleges lieges m in four forty sta states tes agree is that It is not so In some of ot the colleges the student who likes liquor and Indulges in indulges indulges in- in his liking ma mays may not be as extinct extinct extinct ex ex- as the dodo nor as rare nt as the ovis poll but he has become something of ot a curiosity on the campus And this In spite of the tho fact that when a student exhibits a thirst for tor other things than learning the whole college world Is apt to be beIn beIn bein In on the secret Even In the flays days of the mandolin strummers a sophomore sophomore more could make an awful noise on ona ona ona a lass of beer And the kind of stuff peddled now Is more likely to tomake tomake make him want to tear off tire the lid Besides alcohol Is forbidden now no and that gives it a deviltry that has always had an attraction for tor youth In revolt Chancellor Charles W. W Flint of Syracuse university gives academic precision to this Idea when he says that drinking among college students is not so extensive In Its numbers as It Is Intensive In Its manifestations Not much tippling but a lot of ot noise made about it There would ouId be even less stepping over the line fine it appears but for the example of the unreformed old grads grada returning to college to In In- In I spire the undergraduates with the spirit of alma mater as they t knew that some testimony runs It It The not gotten over the the of these have good Old ld daze are more a problem than the younger gener- gener a atlon The Tho Investigation gation further develops that the tho general tone of student uto life life- Is 13 wholesome some much better In In hi fact fact most of tho university heads am admit than In tt their th h own student days President Ray Lyman Wilbur of or Stanford university for Instance reports that t the liquor problem Is o our our- ring r- r about one tenth of or what It was as Ing his tutelage there And his nis testimony is typical The salt then has been taken out of the joke about the college student and the pocket hip-pocket fla flask lIe He really does know that oxygen not products of a and h hydrogen m are arC distillery |