In looking at the many colleges in the United States, one is led to compare them and inquire why it is that this particular college occupies a higher position than that. They are all engaged in similar work, have the same end in view, and teach mainly the same subjects. Why is it then that this one assumes, and has a right to assume, a title of supremacy over all the others? At first there seem to be many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success of this moulding process depends more on the ambition of the student than on the skill of the professor.

A generation of earnest, wide-awake students will do more to raise the standard of any college, than an abundance of money and a long list of eminent professors combined.

We have at Harvard both riches and learning, but they will not go far toward bettering the real standard of Harvard, unless the students as a body respond with Yankee vim and perseverance. There are, of course, many men in our college who know why they are here, but this number ought to be increased.

We can show visitors our fine buildings, large libraries, and valuable museums, but they do not fully express the ends for which they were founded, as long as this "Harvard Indifference" is so prevalent.