Dr. M. Woolsey Stryker is to quit the presidency of Hamilton College this year. It is not too soon. Indeed, in his address to the alumni is this city last week he displayed an utter incompetence for his job. What shall be said of a college president who feels that:

"The American college is on trial and probation as to whether it is worth while or whether the men who go to college get the thing for which they started.

"I say that a student who doesn't study six hours a day is wasting his time and his father's money.

"If he is not to study he ought to go away.

"I shall always say it that I think that when the American college goes in for when the American college goes in floor athletics it is going after strange gods.

"I think the College is, first, a place to study."

The college "first a place to study"; athletics "strange gods"; study "six hours a day"; Dr. Stryker is out of step with progress. There may have been a time when his doctrines would have won adherents; happily it is past, and they have been delegated to the dust bin where repose other curious and outgrown theories the hampered and restricted our daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics is not the first aim of college, why is the football coach paid three times, four times, the salary of the professor of Greek?

And yet there were present when Dr. Stryker spoke graduates who actually called down blessings on his well-filled head! New York Sun.