Nothing shows more clearly the advance of rational ideas of education with us than the rapidly increasing use which is made of the gymnasium by the college at large. True education requires a sound body as its first requisite and a thorough awakening to this fact is a circumstance most encouraging for the success of all of Harvard's experiments in educational matters. In the few days since college opened, there have been nearly three hundred applications for physical examinations. Forty applications have been made for lockers above the number now in the gymnasium. As there are over nine hundred and fifty lockers already, the figures are especially noteworthy. The gymnasium has received a most thorough overhauling during the summer and is in the best possible order. There ought, however, to be some provision made for the men who have been unable to get lockers. There is plenty of room for them in the basement of the gymnasium and they should be put in at once.