Nothing attests so forcibly the ascendancy that the ideas and the marked personality of Matthew Arnold has gained over the minds of the younger generation than the universal eagerness shown by the students of every American college of note, almost without exception, to see and listen to the great apostle of sweetness and light. Where arrangements have not been made for Mr. Arnold to lecture by the college or by the local authorities, it is noticeable that measures have been taken at almost all colleges by the students themselves to secure that privilege, as was the case first at Harvard. No suggestions have ever met with such unanimous approbation from the college press as those tending to this effect. Our exchanges from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, so seldom agreeing, have all agreed in this matter. Few facts could be more significant of the intellectual tendency of the coming generation today than this; for it will not be denied we think that the undergraduate sentiment of our college is a fair representative of the sentiment of the best minds among the younger part of the community. Few men with minds open to ideas have escaped the influence of Matthew Arnold's thought ; thought so purely typical of the characteristic aspirations, beliefs, and the-ories of the present era of modern life. Few, especially, are the undergraduates who have not directly or indirectly felt his influence. Many indeed can count no single personality which has effected them so strongly as Mr. Arnold's. His influence is formative and stimulating, and therefore is rightly strongest with college men.