A late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon the alarming proportion of non-swimmers and upon the desirability of giving some instruction in this useful accomplishment. The question has been discussed time and again here at Harvard. At regular intervals the college press presents its time-worn article upon the subject, each time without the least effect. In view of the repeated failures to bring about any results, it seems hardly worth while to refer to the subject again. But at the risk of growing monotonous, we again wish to call the attention of the college and of its friends to the subject of a swimming-bath. We will not dilate on its advantages. They speak for themselves. However, while the college is so occupied with the subject of morning prayers, we do not expect them to trouble themselves about such trivial matters as fire escapes, swimming-baths, lights in the entries at night, and other subjects which have to do merely with our temporal safety.