The first number of the much talked of Harvard Graduates' Magazine has appeared this fall and under circumstances especially favorable. The magazine cannot fail to be a welcome opportunity for each graduate "to give an honest and fearless expression of his individual opinion." Such a magazine as this has long been wanted and we feel that it will bring many advantages. It will serve to graduates to keep alive their interest in the college, to follow its changes and its progress and give them a chance to compare and to criticise the various changes which the college is making from year to year.

The service which this will do, the stronger binding of past graduates to the college is an important one. Again it will help to keep more in sympathy graduates and under-graduates. It is nearly impossible for graduates of many years standing, especially when they reside in distant states or countries, to keep in accord with undergraduate opinion and action. We are often misunderstood by those outside the college, and not seldom by those who were once in our position. Therefore it seems to us that the magazine will help to remedy this difficulty which is not, after all, so inconsiderable. Moreover the form of the magazine is one greatly in its favor. Far from appearing in a newspaper shape like the publications of some college alumni, its attractive magazine appearance appeals at once to the interest and the taste of the reader. Upon the whole the magazine is doubly welcome and we feel confident that its success is stamped from the outset.