This week is the dividing line of the two half-years, when society defers to the Lenten season, and the long line of class and society dinners begins. Everybody recognizes this to be the free time of the college year, the calm in the midst of the storm. In spite of the theses which were "sprung" uponsome of us immediately after mid-years, college work now presses very lightly upon us. It sat thus lightly on our shoulders at the beginning of the fall term; but the settlement of ourselves and our winter's work claimed much of our spare time. Then came the Christmas duties and the mid-year's grind. Now, once more we have a breathing spell before the plunge into work for the finals, and, in the case of some, into the rush of Class Day and Commencement Day. And now in this period of rest and quiet we wish to say a word of fraternal exhortation, - "Support" everything! (1) Send your subscriptions at once to the managers of the various athletic teams, and not compel them to call upon you many times in vain - in this way supporting also the cause of morality by removing the cause for much vehement malediction. (2) Bring your lady friends to the winter meetings, and thus increase the meagre treasure of that most energetic and praiseworthy organization, the H. H. A. Support the college press, the "Advocate," the "Lampoon" the "Monthly," the CRIMSON, not only financially, but above all by literary contributions. The Yale papers are contributed to with the final end in view of gaining an election to some society. Let it never be said that this stimulus gives Yale better literary work than does at Harvard the simple desire to increase the fair fame of our college and university.

If we have spoken aught in jest, still let it be remembered that the light words from the cap and bells sometimes cover serious truths.