We publish in another column an extract from a western newspaper, concerning Harvard and its teachings. It is not for us to boast over the great advance which has been made under President Eliot's administration, but we can agree with the Exchange that it has been in all respects most fortunate, and that our president deserves all the enjoyment which he can crowd into six short months. It is a source of pleasure to us that Harvard is drawing more and more from the West each year, and that the claim formerly loudly advanced by Yale that she was the only cosmopolitan university, must so soon be abandoned as untenable. When westerners as a body forget their silly prejudices against Boston, we can hope that Harvard will become as popular among their young men as among those of the East who are now learning under her guidance, to be "earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous."