The Board of Overseers met yesterday, and by their action destroyed the last element of religious compulsion in the university. Harvard College, when founded in 1636, was intended to furnish an essentially religious education to its undergraduates. The ministry was then almost entirely composed of these Harvard graduates; but Harvard has outgrown all this; she is now a university with a divinity school of her own, and a law school of her own, and a scientific school of her own; she does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing but engineers. Men are not put in the stocks to-day, as they were two centuries ago did they absent themselves from church, nor do they have their ears shorn off for professing non-or thodox faith. In the light of these great changes, it is wise that compulsion in religious matters here should have been done away with forever. The CRIMSON'S position in this matter is too well known to require further comment. We think that the Overseers will have no cause to regret their action, and that Harvard University will become the gainer and not the loser by it.