The Prospect Union is in need of larger quarters; the number of men who wish to enter classes there is greater than can in any way be accommodated. To meet this need, the most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan looking to the enlargement of this work is worthy of support; and because, in the second place, we have the assurance of conservative business men that this plan is safe as a hard and fast business transaction. The attention is asked of such members of the University as are in a position to make financial investments themselves or who could name other persons likely to be so situated. As a business investment the purchase of these bonds is good; and men who are interested in philanthropy will see a reason in making this rather than another equally good investment.

In another way, this move of the Prospect Union concerns Harvard men even more closely. The enlarged quarters will be accompanied by an increased need of teachers from the University, and there ought to be no lack of response to this need. Organized with only forty charter members, it has grown, within less than four years, so as to have more than six hundred members. By it a class of people are interested in education whom it would be impossible to reach as effectually in any other manner, and in whom any interest in such matters is commonly despaired of. It may be said with safety that the Prospect Union is one of the most wisely planned and successfully conducted philanthropic enterprises in the country.

The relations of the Prospect Union and Harvard have always been very close. Harvard men founded it and Harvard men have ever since made its corps of teachers. Today over seventy-five students, and not a few of the faculty besides, take some active part in its work; and we hope that no future expansion of the Union's work shall ever exceed the willingness of Harvard men to give their aid to it.