It is certainly very interesting to note the positions taken by many of the other colleges on the elective system. What we publish today from Brown is illustration of the reserve with which the system is regarded away from Cambridge. Harvard has led the way. Very slowly Harvard's sister colleges are falling into line. With one eye upon the old system, with another upon the new, they are trying to lose sight of neither. If the new succeeds, then very good; if it fails, the old is still near enough to be called back and taken up again in all its particulars. The many advances, however, that have lately been made towards the system as practised here, seem to imply very forcibly that the other colleges are thinking the system a good one, and realizing that without it they cannot compete with advancing Harvard. "President Robinson is careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question. To what extent shall the system of electives be carried." This caution is commendable, as caution is always commendable. It is fortunate for Brown, and all the other colleges as well, that Harvard was willing to try the system first; and it has been fortunate for Harvard that the trial has proved so satisfactory and successful.