Some of the colleges affect to disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate opinion should, to a certain extent, be respected. Indeed, this belief has been carried so far that in one or two instances attempts have been made to establish a system of self government among the college classes. Undergraduate opinion, it should always be remembered, is likely before long to become graduate opinion. Many of the peculiar beliefs of undergraduate life are no doubt laid aside on leaving college; but fully as many more, it can be said with as much certainty, are treasured and kept. And the influence of this great body of graduate opinion, as expressed by the various alumni associations of any college on matters connected with college government, is gradually becoming more and more the predominating influence.