The address of President Eliot delivered before the Finance Club on Tuesday evening and which we published on our first page, is most gratifying reading for all Harvard students, for it shows in an authoritative way what all have believed in regard to the growth of Harvard in natural prosperity and in general popularity. What President Eliot said in regard to legacies and the way in which many are tied up and so become almost valueless, we take great pleasure in referring to the attention of prospective benefactors of our university. We cannot see what advantage there is in affixing a great mass of conditions to legacies given to educational institutions.