Though we have no complaint to make of the response to the appeal for improvements at the post office,- for nearly a thousand names have been signed to the petition already,- we wish to emphasize a point about which there still seems to be doubt in some quarters, namely as to why University men should concern themselves with a movement like this. They get their mail regularly, so far as they know; what business is it of theirs, they ask, if the government is remiss in the care of its employes, or in any other respect?

Let it be said first that such remarks as this bear high testimony to the faithfulness of those now in charge at the post office. It has been a wonder to every one who has looked over the office that the work has been done anything like as well as it has.

But we urge, furthermore, that as members of the community and patrons of the post office, University men are bound to interest themselves in a movement like this, provided that they are satisfied that a need exists. It is only a few days since Harvard men have been told of the duties of the college graduate in public affairs. To be sure, the scope of a man's interest will widen as he enters into the active life of a citizen; but his responsibility as a member of the community does not begin with his possession of a college degree. When his dependence upon the government is so directly and so constantly shown as it is in his dealings with the post office, he cannot be indifferent to the general efficiency of the service, whether he is in college or out of it.