Cornell's new president, Charles Kendall Adams, in his inaugural on Thursday, referred to President Eliot's administration as "entitled to the distinction of forming a great epoch in the development of higher education in America." This praise, so merited, is to an equal degree significant. It shows that President Eliot's views are gaining ground in colleges other than Harvard. The reaction which was, perhaps, only hastened by our president, is genuine and not ill-timed.

The desirability of increasing the influence of a college in preparatory schools was urged by President Adams. His method of gaining this strength was stated as in the classics, by educating teachers. The true method of making a college popular is in showing to the active world the fruits of a college education. The college that can point to a host of illustrious alumni will not want for students, even if the preparatory schools are filled with teachers who have graduated from a rival college.