One of the significant things in the new "Index" which appeared Thursday is the increased number of Harvard clubs registered. In few ways can the influence of the university be better extended, or respect and enthusiasm for Harvard be more effectually spread abroad than this banding together of old alumni all over our great country. To whom the happy idea of instituting these clubs belongs we do not know, but now that they do exist, nothing seems more natural than that these old Harvard boys, with the same memories and associations should come together. And yet, if we are not mistaken, Harvard is the only university in the world which has such a system of perpetual clubs.

It certainly gives a comfortable feeling to Harvard men, to think that almost anywhere they may go, from Maine to California, they can find near them a group of friends and fellow students, on which they can enter as guests, but as more than guests also, as past members.

The oldest club, according to the "Index," is the Chicago Club, founded in 1857, with a present membership of about one hundred and fifty. Six new clubs are-added to this year's list, although two of them were not founded during the last year. These are the St. Louis, Maryland, Omaha, Rocky Mountain, Louisville, and Indiana Clubs. The full list at present contains seventeen clubs.