"WHAT year did you say it was?"

"The year 2000 of the Christian Era." I was standing in the middle of a ten-acre lot, around which were a number of buildings, one or two of which had a painfully familiar look, as if they were the ghosts of former friends. My interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore a cap on which appeared the number 2004. From this last, and from his general expression, I judged him a Freshman.

"This is, then, Harvard College?" I said, with a sigh. My friend replied in the affirmative, and added, "As you seem a stranger here, perhaps I may be of assistance to you, if you desire to see the college. This is Sever, one of our oldest buildings," he said, with pardonable pride.

"What, may I ask, is the cause of this excitement?"

"They are," replied the Freshman, "electing an instructor for Greek 2."

"Who are?"

"The students, of course. Come in, and perhaps you will understand our system better."

We entered a large room, at the upper end of which was the ballot-counting-machine. On the walls were numerous placards: "VOTE FOR NAVICULA, THE STUDENTS' FRIEND." "REGULAR SOPHOMORE NOMINATION, W. J. ALBUS," &C. I began to realize that things had changed. "You elect your instructors, then?" I inquired.

"Certainly."

"But who governs the College?"

"The Legislature, now in session in the Capitol," he said, pointing across the street. "The House sits in Memorial, and the Senate in Sanders. The traditional name of the Legislature is 'The Harvard Union.' A very interesting paper was read last night before the Historical Society on the origin of this title."

"Have you a press?"

"Certainly; the Mirror and Radiator, dailies; the Abdicate, which is the official publication of the two Houses; and the Crimson, a literary magazine of a hundred pages or so. The Radiator is conducted by the Faculty, and every morning's issue contains a full set of ponies for the day's work."

"But how do they manage the memorizing in French 2?"

"Oh, that is very simple. Each man carries a phonograph in his pocket."