It is unfortunate that the average Harvard underclassman does not take a livelier interest in such of the college publications as represent the more serious efforts to produce something of true literary worth.

At Yale an election to the "Lit." is regarded as one of the greater honors of the college course, and this fact the freshman is made to realize soon after he begins his life there. At Harvard it is too often the case that a man reaches his junior year before he begins to appreciate the distinctly favorable light in which our literary magazine appears when compared with that of any other college.

We are glad to commend to the attention of the University the current number of the Harvard Monthly.