According to men in the Army, the first ten years of the present world war will be the hardest. Those of the Navy have a different way of expressing it. They assert that the seventh, fourteenth and twenty-first years will be the toughest. Either or neither may be right. The fact remains that in their jesting way the men of service have expressed a basic truth which we all must come to realize sooner or later. The war will be long and the war will be hard. There is but one way to shorten the conflict or make the task set before us less difficult. We must prepare!

For the college man the way of preparation should be extremely lucid. Ours is the business of acquiring all the knowledge possible--of stuffing into the thinking tank every shred of accredited information available. As university students, as mind specialists, we are the light of the world. If we fail in the attainment of understanding, upon whom is the world going to rely for brain power? There can be but one answer; it is axiomatic, in fact, an aphorism. We must not fail!

During the extent of the present conflict it is entirely fitting and proper that we should discuss and constructively criticize all important and many unimportant issues. Free speech is a glorious privilege, but the more we talk the more we must read. For the college man, it is a crime to be uninformed, a dark sin to be misinformed. Brains will win the war! Don't waste yours. The Pennsylvanian.