The work of undergraduates would be tremendously improved if more of the lighter element, in particular, could be added. Many of the faults of college work are due unquestionably to the conditions of college life. The wonder perhaps is that the girls write at all. They have little time for quiet thinking, and none for thinking that cannot be turned into classroom currency. How much of this is a necessary evil, incident to the American system of theme-writing, now so vigorously attacked, is a question.
Professional standards are out of place in a consideration of college work.
That sort of consideration we hope the book will receive, and we offer it quite frankly for exactly what it is.