Did it ever occur to the Overseers what an anomalous appearance this college, in its religious aspect, presents to the world? Under the present regulations the Harvard student is required on week-days to attend a place of Christian worship. Yet on Sunday, the Christian holy-day, he is free to pay to spiritual matters what little attention he may please. The reason underlying this peculiar state of affairs would be difficult to ascertain. Week day religion is not the general custom Most men keep their piety for exclusive use on the first of the week. Nor is week-day religion sanctioned by scriptural recommendation. The 4th commandment might even be quoted as authority against such an arrangement.

We fear for the mental condition of the Advocate. Our sister had safely passed through the spasmodic outbreak of energy which attended the inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise. All her contemporaries were saying nice things about her. The Delaware College Review declared that the Advocate was full of interesting reading. The Virginia University Magazine affirmed that it almost wanted to send the Advocate the price of subscription. And, therefore, we are alarmed lest this praise may turn our sister's head. Still, perhaps, there is safety for the Advocate in the one sad fact which mars this otherwise perfect occasion of rejoicing. Where is the Bungtown College Clarion? And why is not its voice heard with all the rest? We are reluctant to think that jealousy of its contemporary has kept the Clarion silent. We strongly urge the Advocate to keep some of its valuable columns reserved, in the hope that, before the next issue, the lagging journal will come up to time.