One of the alumni of the College who is now in Cambridge suggests how desirable is a good hotel or University Club located near the College grounds. At present there is, besides the Colonial Club, no institution which can accommodate visitors, and the conveniences of the Colonial Club are of course for members and friends only. Visitors who have not access to the Colonial Club must in most cases stay at a Boston hotel. It is unsatisfactory. A visit is to be sure not out of the question, but it is accomplished under difficulties; if there were good accommodations in Cambridge the number of alumni and friends of the students attracted here would doubtless be multiplied.

Good as the suggestion is, we confess that the plan does not seem feasible. A hotel would probably not pay; the patronage, taking the whole year into consideration, would hardly be large enough to ensure financial success. If the Colonial Club were not well established in its present quarters, it might be possible to have a large building, part of which should be devoted to the uses of a club modelled after the Colonial, and a separated part devoted to the accommodation of such visitors as secure introduction from a University officer. By combining the two under one management, the expense would largely be decreased. With the Colonial Club in its present circumstances, however, this also seems impracticable.

Although there is difficulty about the realization of this idea, the idea in itself is so good that it must at least be kept in mind as a desirable possibility.