It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all of the modern college gymnasiums of the country. It is certain that scarcely and gymnasium has been newly fitted up, or any plan of physical culture adopted at any neighboring college, but that it has seemed necessary beforehand to inspect the building and methods of Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction a part of the college curriculum. At a recent meeting, we learn from the Era, "two systems were chiefly considered, the one now in vogue at Harvard, where the department is placed entirely in charge of a medical man, who is assisted by a small corps of instructors in gymnastics; the other is the Princeton system, in which a professional gymnast furnishes instruction under the direct supervision of the faculty and trustees. The former system is held as the more favorable one by the trustees, but as yet no man has been found whom they regard as sufficiently competent and trustworthy for the position." All of which well attests the importance and success of Harvard's present liberal policy in the matter of gymnastic instruction and exercises.