Each of the past few years has seen three or four new societies organized, and only a few disbanded. This in crease of clubs has been welcomed as a sign of increased social intercourse in the college. Men with common inter ests have been drawn together, have found new acquaintances, and formed new friendships, and have had their interest stimulated in their special branches of study or athletics. There is, how ever, a danger in the whole movement. It may be carried too far; and the time has come to consider whether it is not already being carried to excess. Almost every Harvard man has two or three pursuits of special interest. He may be studying for honors; he may be a candiate for some university team; he may have literary or musical ability. In any case he is practically sure to be elected to some club which demands rehearsals, papers to be prepared, or practice in the field. Besides being chosen for these, he becomes a candidate for one or more of the purely social clubs. Without hesitation he joins the societies he is elected to, and consequently soon finds his afternoons and evenings croweded with engagements. If he goes into society in Cambridge or Boston his engagements are doubled or trebled throughout the winter, and he finds his partie and club meetings occurring three or four on an evening. Some of his engagements must in(?) and seme of his duties must be shirked Perhaps the first thing that suffers is eystematic study. It is not long before some of the smaller or less interesting societies begin to feel the pressure, and finally the largest and most popular societies are also affected. We hear of meeting after meeting adjourned for lack of a quorum, of papers unprepared, of rehearsals unattended, of training not strictly kept, at beging (?) if something were wrong. The first explanation is that men are undertaking too much. They ought to be more careful about joining societies and about organizing new ones. With all the duties on their shoulders of four elective courses a year, each expecting nine hours a week, and holding the first claim upon students, men ought to proportion their time to these demands. If every man will think over his society obligations, few will find that they have proportioned them properly. They are obliged to shirk some. Under such circumstances, it may well be questioned whether the limit of usefulness in clubs has not already been reached.