. Carolina magazine [serial] . Live truth is the most troublesome thingin a class-room. As between instructor and student, professor and pupil, the stu-dents are the more smug, the more complacent of the two. If there is ever to bea genuine intellectual life on the campus, if the library, not the athletic field, is tobecome the true center of the campus, the change must come from above; it willnot come, as it should, from the students themselves. Soon our expansionistic program here must cease. With it must come a limi-tation upon the numbers of students accepted. Is it at all inconsistent wit
. Carolina magazine [serial] . Live truth is the most troublesome thingin a class-room. As between instructor and student, professor and pupil, the stu-dents are the more smug, the more complacent of the two. If there is ever to bea genuine intellectual life on the campus, if the library, not the athletic field, is tobecome the true center of the campus, the change must come from above; it willnot come, as it should, from the students themselves. Soon our expansionistic program here must cease. With it must come a limi-tation upon the numbers of students accepted. Is it at all inconsistent with ourdemocratic theory of education to accept them on the basis of intellectual, ratherthan financial, ability? Let us have more, and more intensive, placement andpsychological tests. Let us save from the narrow formalism and deadening pedan-try of our system those few individuals who have not been killed by the sys-tem in our secondary schools. We can only say, Try again, Dean. TheCAROLINAMAGAZINE March1928 ?4 35 !*>•. Pepys, the Wife and the Wench And So to Bed. By J. B. Fagan. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 145 pp.$ Another popularization! Not Helen of Troy, or Adam and Eve, or Sir Gala-had, but this time it is Samuel Pepys. This gallant old fellow of Restoration days,this grave and sober Secretary of State and father of the British Admiralty, knownby so many intellectuals and bibliophiles through the subtlety and naivete of theintimate confessions of the famous Pepyss diary, is presented by Mr. Fagan asan amorous rogue on an afternoon that was all comedy. And so to the Pepys has been pepped-up, made glib, colorable and plausible for audiences—the play was written to be acted, and has been produced in London and New so Mr. Pepys, if one may judge by the effects of recent popularizations,is in a fair way to lose his reputation among the scholastics as a hearty old gallant,acquiring instead, among the people, a certain amount of celebrity as
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