We hope that the notices from the committee on the Harvard Night will be carefully read. The task of the committee is an onerous one under the most favorable circumstances, and any heedlessness on the part of applicants will make the work doubly hard.

There are two things in regard to the Harvard Night which ought to be disregarded by no one. In the first place, no tickets should be secured by any one for purposes of speculation, and, in the second place, no tickets should be secured by any one who expects that the occasion will be anything but orderly and dignified. In regard to speculation, the committee will take every precaution. For every seat sold, the name of the purchaser has been kept; the committee know exactly who should be in the different seats, and all suspicious cases will be investigated. The fact that there are some men who will stoop to make money by deliberately perverting the whole purpose of such an affair, cannot be spoken of by the ordinary man with anything but the strongest terms of denunciation. Such men, if there be such, are unworthy to have even an existence at Harvard. In the second place, it ought to be clearly recognized that any disorder on such an occasion would do Harvard an immense amount of harm. The audience will be a very cultured one, assembled out of admiration for the highest artistic talent of the stage, and the spirit of gentlemanliness will never be more called for. The occasion will be unique and delightful,- one whose memory will long remain with us. Not even the rashest among us can fail to see how very unfortunate it would be if such an occasion should be marred in even the slightest way. Every act must be in harmony with Mr. Irving's own spirit.