To-day the undergraduates of Harvard are to do their share in adding to the success of the festivities of this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The programme as now completed is well understood by all; it only remains for us to carry it out with enthusiasm and with a thorough sense of loyalty to our present home.

Our athletes are given an opportunity to add fresh leaves to the wreaths of fame which they have won both on the water and on the field. The practical re-admission of Harvard to the foot ball fraternity comes to-day. Much depends, then, on the issue of this afternoon's game, for it would be glorious indeed if Wesleyan could in future boast of a victory over Harvard on the occasion of her celebration in 1886! Let our players look to it, then, that no such disgrace occurs.

The exercises which are to take place in Sanders theatre will, we are assured, mark well the current of Harvard thought to-day, although one characteristic of life here will not be very manifest, namely, the lackadaisical spirit which has affected a certain number of our students, which, we believe, is growing less and less each year, but which has done much to make Harvard and Harvard men, as such, unpopular throughout the United States, barring, of course, the municipality of Boston. If there were a little less of that unworthy spirit of which we speak and more cordiality and honesty, no doubt the exercises which are to take place to-day would be marked by greater enthusiasm and less insincerity. But we have indeed to be thankful that the average Harvard undergraduate has outlived the period when everything curious or unusual is worthy of attention simply because of its curiosity or novelty. A celebration is of interest to us, not from the fact that it is a celebration, but because it has a meaning deeper and more potent than any fact or expectation to be seen on the surface. It is this spirit of insight which will add zest to the programme of to-day and which will prove itself to be Harvard's greatest accomplishment during the last two hundred and fifty years.