The annual report of the President has been presented to the overseers, and is a most gratifying one for the university. Perhaps the most significant point is this, that the proportion of men drawn from other than the New England States is largely on the increase. This evidences the steady growth of Harvard from a comparatively local college into a national and representative university. It is not so very long ago that Harvard was but a New England college with a few men from the other states. Now it is very different; and as the means of travelling are being made easier, Harvard is yearly extending its influence over the whole country and drawing men here from every portion of the entire land.

The faculty's position on athletics, as set forth in the report, is not a new one, and it would be useless to open anew a discussion as to its justice. No one desires to see a higher tone in college athletics more than we, nor would any be more pleased to see some sensible change by which any taint of professionalism which may still linger in them could be removed.

The matter of college discipline is simplifying here yearly, and, in his report on this subject, the dean merely voices and opinion that is held by every one, when he states that order is kept principally by the college sentiment as a whole. All in all, the university at large has every reason to feel proud of the advancement and progress which Harvard is making year by year in every direction. And we shall have every reason to be gratified if the next report shows as successful a year as the last one.