onor from others. The more
talented and attractive they are, the more damage do they do. They
perpetuate their kind. If fraternities or honorary societies honor and
reward that sort of leadership, they force individuals into futility, and
reenforce the natural temptation to shallow work and display by the
powerful pressure of socialized public opinion.

What has just been said applies to the inner life of the college group
during its brief command over young men and women. But meanwhile the
outside life is waiting for them. Society creates and finances the
colleges and universities from the social fund created by those who work.
A college man who toys with his work and fights those who want to make him
work, ought to be demoted and his chance given to some workingman who has
intellectual hunger and would use it. But even of the able and efficient
college men society has a right to inquire whether it is training enemies
and exploiters or friends and leaders. This question will be asked more
and more insistently by democracy as it becomes intelligent. Christianity
anticipates this inquiry by its appeal to the individual conscience. Every
college man and woman should choose the principle on which he proposes to
exercise leadership in case he wins it. Are we willing to gain wealth by
impoverishing others? Are we willing to get pleasure by degrading others?
Are we willing to gain power and freedom for ourselves by making others
powerless and unfree? Jesus distinguishes three kinds of men who are
interested in the sheep--the robber, the hireling, and the shepherd. You
can tell the presence of the robber by the death of the sheep; the
hireling by his cowardice; the true leader by his valor and love.

A special word should be said to college women. In her book on "Woman and
Labor," Olive Schreiner has pointed out that as families rise to wealth,
the women slip into parasitism more readily than the men. They cease to do
productive work, accept the luxuries of life as their right, and fall in
with upper-class pretensions. The means of leadership--time, wealth, social
resources--are at their command. How will they use them? The number of
women with unearned incomes is increasing rapidly in America. Now, if much
is given them, much will be required. Can they produce enough social
values to justify what they consume? The least we can do is to give as
much as we get. Anything less is immoral.

What kind of influence do college girls