Unusual efforts have been made by the faculty this year to devise some means whereby freshmen entering college may have the benefit of mature advice, and these efforts have resulted in the choice of certain professors as advisors of the freshman class both in the choice of college studies and in all matters of student interest. We cannot commend this innovation too highly since it guards against one of the most considerable-in fact almost the only important evil of the elective system-the possibility of immature choices.

Keeping in purpose, also, to this system is the plan adopted last evening in the lecture delivered by President Eliot to those students who have come to Harvard this year for the first time. We welcome most heartily all efforts such as these for the establishment of better relations between students and faculty, and for the uplifting of student opinions and standards. Through such methods only can we hope for the development of that which is highest in student character.