How far reaching are to be the final effects of the plan that was first tried some years ago by the university, of holding entrance examinations at other cities, and particularly Western cities, are probably not often fully appreciated by Harvard men. It is true that no very marked effects have yet been felt from this policy, but any immediate increase of the influx of students to Harvard from these cities and the adjoining country is not to be expected. The adoption of the same plan by Yale, and more lately by some of the smaller New England colleges, has naturally acted somewhat as a check upon such a result. But the advertisement, the legitimate advertisement, for the university that follows upon this plan is a matter of no small account. As the Western States grow in wealth and in opportunities for higher education within their own borders, it will be but natural that they will more and more turn to the older and more thoroughly organized institutions of the East, and, we may hope, more particularly to Harvard as the completest representative of the university ideal in this country.