A college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room.

Neither of these two large classes realizes that it has taken the wrong standpoint. The true educational value of the college lies in the fact that it can properly offer the happy combination of class room and outside activities. But although the college may offer this latter, it is practically powerless to see that the opportunities it offers are accepted.

It is practically universally accepted that there is a vital need for co-ordination between the extra-curricular and class-room work, yet it is obviously impossible to enforce any such co-ordination.

The need for this broadening influence comes, not while the man is at college, but after he has graduated and gone into the world of business. Here he is extremely likely to find that while he may be far more conversant with the literary style of the Victorian period, he is not nearly so well fitted for the tasks ahead of him as the non-college-bred man is.

Many of the larger corporations who train college men for positions of trust require not only that the man measure up to certain requirements of scholarship but that he also should have done something in the extra-classroom life of his college. This insures that the man will not be alone a man of books but that he will have a knowledge of other men as well.

For the college man who desires to fully realize his opportunities, he must not be contented with simply college work, but he must get out among his fellow students and learn the mystic significance of the phrase "College life." COLUMBIA SPECTATOR.