EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I submit to you some ideas on the question of cooperation at Harvard. I know they are not popular at present, but I believe them to be just, and I fear that it will not be long before their truth is proved by practical experience. The essence of cooperation is cooperation, and the secret of success is concentration. Therefore, if cooperation at Harvard is to look for any success at all, all efforts towards it should be concentrated for the success of one experiment in the matter. No harder blow could be struck at the prospects of a cooperative society at Harvard than the failure of her cooperative dining association; for it would seem a most useless waste of enthusiasm to attempt success in one, where failure had resulted in another. This for the reason that the essence of cooperation is cooperation, and it is difficult to see how cooperation is to be secured for one scheme, when it is denied to the other. "United we stand, divided we fall," would seem to be a necessary motto for the two representative schemes of cooperation at Harvard, and the result either way rests with the dubious factor of public spirit among her students. There has now come a time when the notorious question of "Harvard indifference" can receive a categorical answer, and the burden of the responsibility for a positive or a negative answer rests equally with each and every Harvard student in this year A. D., 1882.

H. L.