Notes

Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history they subject to sympathies or antipathies." In future women will teach Rico, Tito and Beppo only sciences, languages, and philological subjects.

In West Virginia. Two weeks ago President Homer Wark of West Virginia Wesleyan said that football in his institute was commercialized, that players were paid in books, room, board, tuition, each one receiving about $500 a year.

Last week President Wark got up to talk in chapel. From heads, reverently bowed, from mouths buried in hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree.