The College Vacationist

To return to the sun-burned vacationist with which we began this, we might relevantly wonder where and how he acquired his tan. We can hardly do more than wonder, with no statistics at hand. But we would venture the statement that the vacationing undergraduate does quite considerably more traveling than was erstwhile his wont. It seems to us that about one student out of five spent the past summer abroad. And it isn't merely that they are two or three times as loquacious as the stay-at-homes that makes them seem so numerous, for they are oddly reticent about their wanderings, which rather confirms the feeling that travel is growing more common.

There is the usual weird variety of summer occupations. We don't suppose there is a thing that some college student does not do in the course of a vacation. Life-guarding, bell-hopping, waiting, wandering (including that penurious species of travel called bumming), house-to-house canvassing, ditchdigging, brick-laying, following tournaments, selling everything imaginable, doing every conceivable variety of industrial work, and, finally, performing that peculiarly indefinable occupation called "working for Dad."

Our one impression of the trend in summervacationing is that there is less of the prosaic home-town work, and more traveling, some combining work and travel by going down to the sea in ships. There is, in a word, something like an epidemic of undergraduate wanderlust.