Invitations have been extended to the members of the senior class to listen to Dr. Hale and Mr. Winsor in a discussion of the history of the university. Every student now in the university should feel interested to learn the history of his Alma Mater, but members of the graduating class above all others should feel called upon to make it a subject of study. All old institutions possess readable histories, and Harvard is no exception. Upon an occasion like the approaching anniversary it would seem strange to a visitor that not one perhaps in a hundred students could tell him the name of the first president of his college, and not one in five hundred could tell him the occasion of the university's foundation. It is true, as the librarian says, that all the histories of Harvard have been taken out of the library by men who are reading up for orations or a torchlight procession, but when such an opportunity as the present is offered no excuse could be justly given why it should not be embraced. The oldest university in the land surely must have some interest to any student, but when the student is a Harvard student it becomes imperative upon him to know what has characterized the life of the university which is now directing his studies.