The statement from Professor Bartlett, Regent of the University, in regard to the extent of the illness in college will be reassuring to parents who have received exaggerated accounts of the prevalence of disease in Cambridge. Although there has been no general alarm among the students themselves, it is gratifying to know that the college authorities are taking proper precautions against the spread of illness of any kind. In a place like this where men are constantly being thrown in contact with each other, it would be a simple matter for a single person to expose many others to a disease which might prove an epidemic. Hence Professor Bartlett's request that cases of illness of over a days duration should be reported at the office, ought, for the sake of the health of others, to be strictly adhered to. In the cases of the graduate and professional schools, where there is no way of learning of a case as soon as it appears, it is particularly desirable and even necessary that the precautions suggested by the Regent should be kept in mind and followed. Harvard has long been fortunate in the general health which her students enjoy. There is no reason to doubt that this prosperity will continue, but it is only right that every one should remember what is due his neighbors and act accordingly.