The annual report of the President of the University, including the reports of the deans of the several schools and of the heads of the different departments, will be a source; of no little satisfaction to all who have carefully watched the results of our elective system. Those who were at first fearful of the effect of such a system on Harvard, have, year by year, seen the plan emerging from doubtful to certain success until now there are hardly any grounds on which the workings of the system can be said to be unsatisfactory.

The average college man has little idea of the extensiveness and efficiency of the work which is constantly being carried on about him. To such an one the President's report comes as a revelation of the magnitude and seriousness of the university life, of which we, as undergraduates, see but a very small part. It is certainly a pleasure to note the strides which Harvard is taking in many of the educational reforms of the day and to realize the scale on which original scientific research is being conducted. They show the growth of the university, in contrast to that of the college. The future development of Harvard, not necessarily in numbers, but in educational advantages, must be, for the most part, in the graduate and professional schools and hence we must welcome the more and more rigid requirements for admission to these departments and for continuance in them.

The President's report is concise and comparatively condensed, considering the field which it has to cover. We can do little more here than refer to it as a whole and recommend it to every one interested in Harvard as valuable and instructive reading.