The recent attempt to secure a foothold for the admission of women to the Harvard Medical School seems to have provoked little interest among the students of the university at large-a fact that is undoubtedly due to the feeling on the part of the college that the possibility of the successful termination of such an attempt is very remote, and that an attempt to secure their admission into the college proper would be still more unavailing. This confidence is undoubtedly well grounded. The rigid conservatism of the government of Harvard University has been so repeatedly proved that the danger of the adoption of so radical a scheme as that of co-education for many years yet is very remote indeed. But the vote on the recent proposition is very significant. That the more liberal and progressive portion of the board of overseers should have looked with any favor on the plan is certainly indicative of an imminent discussion in the board, before many years, over some proposition for the admission of women to the college itself. The measures employed to recommend such an idea by its advocates have been very insidious and deceiving. The innocent annex may turn out to be an engine of tremendous power. But the present apathy of the students on the question is undoubtedly justified. Possibly they will take a livelier interest in the discussion when the question has been brought so closely before them as it has at Columbia recently. Whether they will take precisely the stand Columbia has taken is doubtful.