The President of one of our greater American Universities lately spoke before his students on the subject of college government. If his remarks were correctly reported, it is clear that the methods of governing at his institution are not as far advanced as here. He sets forth the proposition that "the best ideal for the college is in the moral sense of the individual student," a principle which was discovered here long ago and which has been the basis of our government longer than any of the present undergraduates can remember. The report also says that the conscientious demands of the student body ought to be recognized, and that if anything is done which the students will not ratify then the governing body had best ask itself if it is not wrong. This President was strongly in favor of putting men on their honor at all examinations; finally the report says that he spoke against summoning an offending student before a large faculty committee, since a committee of one who understands the case is more likely to decide justly. For the most part these suggestions have already been carefully weighed and applied at Harvard. In the system under which we find ourselves working at present, is embodied each of these ideas, and to its rationality every student at Harvard is able to attest.