We have the authority of a member of the Corporation for stating that it was the intention of the Corporation, in prohibiting the use of University buildings for political party purposes, simply to prevent clubs of students from holding political meetings in the same fashion as other voters and holding them in University buildings. That is to say, the Corporation expresses itself as willing that students should form political clubs and as willing that they should take part in political meetings of the usual character if held elsewhere, but as unwilling that they should hold meetings of this character in halls which belong to the University. In other words, the Corporation wishes to make sure that the campaign element is eliminated from meetings held, as it were, under the auspices of the University.

As thus explained, the intention of the Corporation seems to us to be good. That political methods or machinery should be introduced, never so slightly, is undesirable; but the question which presented itself to our minds was whether the means employed to realize this purpose were not too sweeping, whether the vote of the Corporation besides accomplishing its intention will not also cause considerable loss. There is a political party meeting of a character which we regret to see abolished,- the meeting in which the speakers, although strong partisans, explain in a delightful manner the principles and ideals of their party. The audiences which Harvard affords wishes not for flourishes but reasons, and in adapting themselves to this wish the speakers give such discussions of public questions as are not to be heard elsewhere. There have been meeting of this kind and there ought to be more; they are of high value to the students. It is because the practical means for holding such meetings seems to be cut off, that we object to the Corporation's action.