WE most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars towards the College, but also will doubtless prove extremely beneficial, when necessary, by enabling the Corporation to substitute young and vigorous men, full of modern ideas, for those whose thoughts and life are only in the past, and who have outgrown their usefulness.