Education: Wave

The press continued to give prominence to suicides among U. S. school and college students, of whom 15 killed themselves last fortnight, bring the total for the so-called "wave" to 36 since New Year's (TIME, Feb. 7 et seq.). One enterprising news agency furnished an exclusive account of a girl student's suicide in Constantinople. A Cambridge University man slew himself. The opinion of almost anyone as to an underlying "cause" for the "wave," continued to make good copy.

Mrs Otto H. Kahn received ladies of the Girls' Service League of America at...

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