The Boston Post of yesterday published a very interesting and fairminded editorial on Harvard, her present success and her possibilities. It is always a distinct relief to find our university truthfully represented, and particularly to learn that the most sever critics of the century, the newspapers, are glad to give credit when and where it is due. It is undeniable that there are mistakes made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best of advantages and methods are our own, and Harvard has always taken first rank for her freedom and her breadth. Despite the sneers of croakers and wisacres, she is today as she has been ever, the mother of cultured manly sons.
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