Tonight a service will be held in Sanders Theatre in commemoration of Francis Parkman, whose recent death took from among the list of Harvard graduates a name which always stood for honor and uprightness and purity of life. During his life Mr. Parkman was always looked upon as a man of rare qualities, whose fine personality shows through all his work as a historian and as a simple man among men. It is eminently fitting that the University from which he graduated should hold a public service of this kind and show the same spirit of affection for the dead that was always shown for the living. And the students of this University, living in the same atmosphere which he breathed, acted upon by the same influences which produced in him so find a manhood, should be present in large numbers tonight to honor his memory. Occasions like this, when we stop for an hour in our busy lives to listen to the story of such a man as Mr. Parkman, are very impressive and very valuable. In the remarks which will be made tonight by President Eliot, Mr. Winsor and Professor Fiske, there are sure to come stories of Mr. Parkman's life and labors which will have a lesson for us who are now in college. Very much of Harvard's honorable position is directly traceable to the high character and noble quality of her graduates, and every chance which present students have of drawing nearer to these graduates and studying their lives is a chance too valuable to miss.