The announcement of the condition of the Harvard Union shows that this organization is very active. Such activity not only assures prosperity to the Union, but it is of immense advantage to the interests of speaking in the University. The Union is both to be congratulated and thanked.

The officers of the Union hope that such union debates as those proposed with the Trinity Club and Boston University Debating Club will not be confused with the great debates with Yale. The first are important in their place, but are only means to an end. The Yale debates, held by the Union and the Wendell Phillips Club, were the chief source of life to debating here, and will long

remain the chief interest.

The Princeton debate, however, if it can be successfully arranged, would rank only second to the Yale debates and might very likely come later to be on a par with them.