The opening of the new year is graced with several changes and evidences of growth in the college, which cannot but be gratifying to all. The completion of a new and elegant Law School building brings joy to the heart of the graduate who has returned to pursue his studies in law. A physical laboratory building rapidly approaching completion gives evidence of the zeal of the college and its benefactors in promoting the cause of science; while the actual appearance of a carefully graded track and athletic ground on Holmes field, on a spot where only last spring a pathetic and unsuccessful swamp struggled for the mastery with a few scattered tennis courts and some willow trees, is calculated to fill the student returning to the bosom of the alma mater with emotions of agreeable surprise. If the freshmen of former year have had cause to wonder at the vastness and extent of the college, what must be the feelings of the freshmen of today ? But these very freshmen, moreover, themselves afford the greatest cause for wonder and congratulation. A class whose members are reported to exceed three hundred need have no occasion to emulate the illustrious example of little Jacky Horner and his Christmas pie. An infant so big as this need scarcely proclaim its own bigness.

But in other respects also the year opens brightly for the Harvard student. With a record of victories, brilliant and complete, made by its crews, with the record made in the past year in general athletics, in tennis and in lacrosse, the college can reasonably afford to be well satisfied. The successes of the past will demand new successes in the future. A healthy feeling of confidence and hope must succeed the feeling of despondency that has often prevailed in the college. Thus with classes larger than ever before and with the cheerful spirit inspired by success, all those interests which occupy the leisure and constitute the recreation of the students may look to be well served.

The facilities offered by the college to students are year by year growing more extensive. Student life itself at Harvard is rapidly growing more liberal and cosmopolitan in its character. It has already abandoned all the weaker and more puerile forms of college sports which formerly flourished under the name of hazing. The tone of student opinion at Harvard we believe is not particularly indifferent, but is energetic and full of enthusiasm. As the college itself has broadened and become more liberal so has the student mind. Within the past year we have seen a large advance in this direction on both sides. With the signs which accompany the beginning of the present term we may look for a far greater advance in the year to come.