No doubt many of the students, especially members of the entering class wondered by what right the faculty sent orders to various boarding and lodging house keepers in town Monday night forbidding the holding of punches and other convivial parties. As we do not understand that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare.

Doubtless few of the students of the college have learned of the gift to the corporation of $10,800 by John Tyndall. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning."

This is a gift that Harvard may well appreciate, and the significance of its having come from across the Atlantic should by no means be overlooked. All like gifts, aiming at special and advanced study, are always valuable to a University. If but few in number, they tend perhaps to be an aggravation; but if many, they cannot fail to create an incentive for higher study and indirectly to raise the entire intellectual tone of the college or university possessing them.