Over a thousand men are now studying at Harvard in the academical department. The majority are doing their work in a definite way as a means of reaching a definite end. Many are devoting their time to the study of political economy and history with the expressed determination of fitting themselves for a political career in the future. Others are paying less regard to these studies, yet still give to them such attention as they consider necessary for the proper performance, later in life, of the functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print on the first page.

Here is Harvard University, with an alumni roll in which the names reach well into the thousands, and most of whose living graduates are resident in Massachusetts, - yet but fourteen of her sons are found in the legislature of the state. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and the dangers of incomplete education to-day are shown most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown at Harvard may yet bring forth much fruit.