MR. PULZIFER of the New York World has made an offer to pay the expenses of sending an American crew to England to meet the champion Oxford eight, the crew to be the winner of the Harvard-Yale race. Although this offer appears attractive at first, it involves a point which deserves consideration. Harvard will doubtless be called upon to make some official reply. The feeling at present in college is too indefinite for us to say just what the nature of this reply will be. If it should be an acceptance and our crew should prove to be the one to uphold the American honors we shall find ourselves under the necessity of accepting great favors of one who has no connection with us and is not prompted not by any particular loyalty to Harvard for her own sake. We feel sure that if there was any call to send a Harvard crew to England, her graduates would come forward quickly to provide the way. Moreover, they would feel that it was a privilege which should first be offered them. It was not long ago when a certain prominent alumnus promised a sum of money to cover the expenses of sending a crew abroad. He did this of his own free will. It is reasonable to believe that there are many others who would show a spirit equally ready and generous if once we should make known our wants. The idea of entering upon a scheme which to many must appear an advertisement, whether it is or not, is not one which commends itself to us.

Whether we are likely to win from Yale this year does not enter into the question at all. The principle at stake is the same. We feel that an international boat race of the kind proposed should be distinctly the result of a graduate and undergraduate movement, and not of the offer of the editor of an enterprising newspaper, whose motives are so likely to be interpreted in but one way. Should his plan be adopted we think the college would suffer in public estimation, whether with justice or not.

Chicago University is attempting to combine all the medical schools of Chicago into one great medical college that shall rival the best European institution.

Oberlin was the first college in the world to admit women on the same plane as men and opened its doors to the negroes 28 years before their emancipation.

This afternoon at three o'clock Mr. J. J. Hayes will read "Much Ado about Nothing" before the Monday Club of Boston University.