The salient point in the president's report which appears to day, is the evidence afforded of Harvard's steady advancement in size and matter of advantages. Not a year passes in which some new building, some new department of learning or added opportunity for study does not testify to the vitality and growth of the college. The past year is not wanting in such additions. New and enlarged courses have been added to the curriculum of the law and medical schools; the new divinity hall and library is fast approaching completion; the courses in the college proper have been enlarged and increased to a very large extent, money has been given and preliminary steps taken for a swimming bath at the gymnasium and last but not least, the college exchequer has been increased by several notable gifts of large sums of money.

Because we need a few things, such as one or two dormitories, the lighting of Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming."