We again call the attention of all members of the University to the meeting which will be held in Sanders Theatre tonight. It ought to be a memorable occasion. It will be the public announcement of an organization which, if we mistake not, will establish itself among the most well-known and beneficial institutions in the University. The work which the organization proposes to do is sure to yield tangible results, and to bring experience of high value to the students who take hand in it. Any work of which these two assertions can be made has in it the elements of permanent success.

We suggest to men who have never taken any interest in philanthropic work that it will not be amiss to attend the meeting. The speakers, regardless of the subject, are guarantee that time spent in Sanders Theatre tonight will be well spent. On few occasions can Harvard men hear such a group of speakers. And then, we firmly believe that the subject is one which needs only to be heard in order to be favored. There is, the world over, a great movement toward such philanthropic work. This work has excited both praise and derision. It has been extolled because it proposed to do good deeds to unfortunate men and women; it has been decried because oftentimes the purpose was fulfilled only in a sentimental, an uneconomic, or a bungling fashion. Yet, after all, this sort of work is forcing itself up and up in public opinion. Derision is giving way to examination, criticism yields to close cooperation.

Under these circumstances, such a work has claims upon the serious attention of every man that wishes to make himself well-informed and particularly of every man that wishes to go deep into the questions of the time.