There flourished last year a society, known to some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression." One interested speaks of the opportunity, and a voice from the darkness replies to him with biting scorn. How does the matter now stand? No one knows, nor is it the evident desire of any one to know. One thing however is certain. If the ill-fated club is to be recalled to life it must be upon an essentially new basis. But will such a society bear such a new construction? We question it. Its former ideal was too realistic, too highly seasoned for other than a short and inglorious existence. No other ideal will satisfy the aspirations of the followers of its past teaching. If it is to be revived in the form of a Shakspere Conference, it is, as Dr. Johnson says, "already dead." If it is to present a series of public Shaksperian recitals, it is incapable of accomplishing such work satisfactorily. Few desire its revival; none desires to create in it another opportunity for such a ludicrous and preposterous exhibition of inane and cheap acting as was thrust upon the university two years ago in the form of "A Presentation of Julius Caesar by the Harvard Shakspere Club.

It is with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking off the bonds which held her and has been approaching nearer and nearer to the level of a university. She has worked faithfully and uncomplainingly and she deserves her reward; and there is to-day no institution in America which will wish more success and happiness to Columbia than, our own university of Harvard.