In the increased number of men who have returned this year for post-graduate studies Harvard has cause for self-congratulation. There can be no comment more favorable to the intellectual status of a college than the fact that, after the fascination in college life pure and simple has passed away at their graduation, the alumni return either to the Law School, the Medical School, or for advanced study in the Graduate Department. Eighty-eight has, in this respect, shown commendable loyalty to its Alma Mater, and the officers and professors of the university should feel in this an assurance that their work has been well done. The presence of the alumni, too, is practically an assertion that Harvard has taken actually as well as nominally the place of an university.