The movement toward the better expression of the true literary work of the college, which found its inception in the first "Literary Supplement" issued by the CRIMSON, has culminated in the proposal of several undergraduates to found a new periodical to be devoted entirely to this object, to be entitled the "Harvard Literary Monthly," and in the announcement made by the Advocate that hereafter that journal will devote a generous portion of its space to the purely literary work done by the students under the supervision of the instructors in English. So far as can be judged from present indications, both these schemes will be tested next year. Obviously both enterprises cannot be entirely successful. One or the other of the undertakings must necessarily defeat the expectations of the students interested in it. What, then, is to be done under the circumstances? It seems to us that the establishment of such a journal as the proposed "Literary Monthly" has become a necessity at Harvard, and that its establishment has been merely a question of time, and that that time has now come. Yet we feel that the services rendered by the Advocate during the years of its past history have been such as to make any danger of the failure of this paper a very undesirable result. We hope, then, that the new departure in Harvard journalism may finally result in a coalition of the new element with the element represented by the management of the Advocate, a course which may at the same time conduce to the attainment of the object in view and preserve the honored name which the Advocate has so long maintained among us.