A recent number of the Princetonian contains an editorial, a column, and a half long, in which Harvard, judged from her New York alumni, is represented as tending toward Princeton; and Yale, judged from her alumni in general, as tending toward Harvard. Says the Princetonian in closing, "Now it looks at present very much as if the Yale alumni are going finally to carry the day. And if, moreover, it be not wholly unreasonable to suppose that the Harvard alumni will ultimately win their alma mater to their principles, can it be an altogether vain speculation for us to hope that in the race of American colleges, Yale will continue to head for Harvard after Harvard has headed for Princeton and, that, Princeton's educational principles acknowledged supreme, Princeton will naturally take its place as the most advanced college in America? Time will show."

The logic in the above is quite invincible. The "speculation" is not "vain." To set aside the other suppositions and propositions, the supposition that all the alumni of Harvard are in hearty sympathy with a portion of the alumni in the New York Harvard Club is really no supposition at all, but a veritable axiom, to doubt which would be like saying that two and two are not four, but five or six. And as commendable as the Princetonian's logic, is its faith in time. Concerning this, however, it should be remembered that time by general belief, is endless, so that faith in time may be endless also. With such a limitation in mind we are willing to say, with the Princetonian, not that time will, but that time may show Princeton "the most advanced college of America." If she becomes this, however, the Princetonian in spite of its excellent logic, can only say, "We dreamed it would be so," not "We proved it would be so."