The preachers to the University are just about to close another year of their work at Harvard; and we want to take this opportunity to thank them for what they have done. Their work this year has been broader than in any previous year and the effect on university life has been correspondingly greater. The new and better order of things began when, five years ago, the government of the University voted that the statute concerning religious exercises "at which the attendance of the students is required" be stricken out. Since that time the spirit of the undergraduates has changed greatly. It is a spirit at once freer and higher than the old one. To the cultivation of this newer earnestness in the religious life of the undergraduates the university preachers have contributed much. A great portion of the students are distinctly identified with religious movements; it cannot be denied that many others do not occupy such a position. There is, however, no sharp dividing line between two such classes. Both are in earnest; both are searchers after truth. Perhaps the students themselves may not have always realized this; but those who of late years have closely studied the student life at Cambridge, have realized the change for the better. It has been a change, we believe, for which the characters of the University preachers have in large measure to account. They have been such as to win the entire confidence of all classes of the students. We could say no higher word of praise than this.