The gradual but sure revolution which is being effected in the social life at our university, encouraged and stimulated by such earnest discussions as appear from time to time in the college publications, can no longer be ignored by any one. It is very gratifying to find that these matters are being seriously discussed in all circles within the university. We are confident that this healthy, manly spirit which is appearing so prominently will result in bettering many of the relations of college life. While it is well to set our aims very high, we must not allow ourselves to be carried so far by the present reaction as to expect that those differences which exist in every community of men with "diversified functions" shall be wiped out of the life at Harvard. The communication which appears in our columns this morning points out an undoubted evil, and its writer does wisely to call attention to it. However, it is well to bear in mind that a man's sociability is, after all, a limited quantity and that he will choose his friends from those who are most congenial to him. This stands as an unalterable fact and no revolution in our social life can affect it a whit.

At the same time this natural disposition of men may not be urged as a plea against their being civil and courteous to men not directly in their set. Regarded from this point of view the points made in this morning's communication have great weight.