Some days past there appeared on the local scene the "Harvard Man's Guide Book," a publication dedicated to the worthy purpose of the better enjoyment of bright college years and the more efficient sowing of wild oats. In this monumental work, greeted by a thunderous silence, which runs the gamut of Harvard activities from A to B, the omission of a chapter on false teeth or orthodontia, is a heavy loss.

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Why, says you, mention false teeth? Well, says I, false teeth, and eyeglasses too, are most important in the adolescent ramifications of sex--shades of Kraft-Ebing!

It seems that a Smith Freshman, a nifty bit, once received a telephone call from the neighboring metropolis of Amherst asking for a date, and this from a man she hadn't even met! Well, she opined it would be all hotsy-totsy (she hadn't been asked out before, but it was early in the term) and the deal was clinched. Inquiring among her friends, she discovered that the said callow youth was anything but up to the real Amherst standards of virility and chivalry.

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Our little heroine had learned more than one trick on the street corners of her native haunt, so never despairing, she rallied those friends she had obtained for his friends and, one and all, they donned false buck teeth and eyeglasses of passing ugliness. It was, of course, arranged that if the boys were such as to really hit the spot, the disguises would come off quick as a wink, but strange to say the teeth stayed in, and equally strangely, the boys left. ("You know Amherst boys," the Freshman said.)

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The moral is slight. However, if and when the chosen few who edit the Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano.