THE idea of the erection and maintenance of a Phillips Brooks House, which is carefully explained in the letter from Mr. Abbott, published in another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes to honor the memory of Phillips Brooks, and have a share in the completion of a project which he so greatly favored and worked for. It is sincerely to be hoped that the necessary sum will be raised by Commencement time.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
