The movement now on foot for the organization of those interested in the work being done by the Prospect Progressive Union in Cambridgeport deserves to succeed. The history of the Union is interesting. The work was begun in a modest way last February. College men were asked to support it with their time and their money, but the response was not very encouraging. Nothing daunted a few energetic spirits went ahead, established the work, and persevered in it. The Union has grown and prospered, until now a very important work is being done and the field is constantly broadening and opening up new possibilities to the workers. It still asks the same sort of aid from the college that it did in the beginning, but the appeal has a very real force now. Harvard men cannot allow this work to be crippled by lack of money and of workers.

A clear statement of the financial needs of the Union was made in yesterday's CRIMSON; between $800 and $1,000 are needed to pay the running expenses during the coming year. It is hoped that half of this amount will come from colltge men. The money could be secured without much difficulty from philanthropic men interested in the sort of work the Union is doing; but the same amount of money coming from college men will have many times the value to the Union. It is the connection of the Union with the college which makes it attractive to the young mechanics and laborers who are members. They like to feel that Harvard students are enough interested in this work to unite with them to bear the burden of its financial support. It is evidence that we expect to receive as well as to give in our intercourse with them; and it is this give and take relation which is at the bottom of every successful movement to bring men of different classes and different advantages into closer sympathy and better understanding. It is, therefore, very important that we stand in the proper attitude toward the Union. The demand made of the college is not very large; all that is necessary to insure its being met readily is that the work of the Union be well understood. It is for this reason among others that it is now proposed to effect an organization among all men in college who are interested in the Union. This auxiliary organization will have a close connection with the Union though not necessarily an active one on the part of all of its members. It will back the Union and make its work more widely known. Through it men will be able to help with their money, or time, or both.