Excerpt from The Omegan, Vol. 9: December 1932Strange as it may seem, scholarship is Still the main reason for the existence of educational instructions. In these days, when extra-curricular activities of all sorts receive such wide publicity, and make such inroads on the available time of the students, 'when the prestige of a college seems to depend quite largely on the success of its football team, and when the number of students enrolled is the chief argument for increased appropria tions, scholarship is so infrequently mentioned that it is entirely lost sight of by many people. But in spite of'the justifiable place in college life of all extra-curricular organizations and activities, the heart and soul of an educational institution must be the instructional work carried on in the classrooms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.