In the death of Ezra Abbott, Harvard loses another of those men who have done most to add to her reputation. The name of Dr. Abbott is probably better known to the outside world than was his figure to the greater number of the undergraduates; yet every student feels a part-ownership in the reflected glory of that name and deep regret at the loss which Harvard shares with world. It is the character of such men no less than their learning that makes their influence a whole some one and in Dr. Abbott was combined a character of the rarest purity and learning, most vast and accurate. the value of a residence at a great university lies not alone in the opportunities offered for the acquisition of learning, but in the surroundings. When one is constantly thrown in contact with a circle of men whose only aim is to know the best the world can offer, he can not fail, however thoughtless he may be, to be influenced in the direction of good. It is this circle of the older professors at Harvard that makes us fell proud of our university and it is to their personality that we shall look back when we shall have gone forth from her walls. Every student who has the good fortune to come in contact with these men feels that he is bettered by that contact and that he is bettered by that contact and those who did not know them still feel their influence in the higher tone that pervades the university. Unfortunately the circle of such men as Ezra Abbott and Benjamin Pierce is but small at Harvard and every day it is growing smaller. Those that still remain may go at any moment and we cannot help feeling that we belong to the privileged few who yet may know them.