The Memorial Society has a rare opportunity of service to the University. For a place as rich as Harvard is in historical associations, remarkably little has been done to make memorable the spots about which they centre. To few of the men who have built up Harvard, whether by efforts directed immediately to her advancement or by the honor which their service to the world at large has reflected upon her, have visible memorials been erected.

Anything that helps each student here to understand fully what Harvard is, increases the University's influence for good. And the real Harvard is not Harvard present alone, but Harvard present and Harvard past.

As announced in the CRIMSON of Saturday, the work of the Memorial Society is one in which any member of the University may cooperate, by contributing information in the line of the society's work. Would it be impracticable for students who are taking courses in American history in which research is assigned, to do part of their work in the very rich field afforded in the history of Harvard and in the lives of Harvard men.

The task which the Memorial Society has set before itself is not one that can be accomplished in a year, or in fact, in any set time. Year by year, it is to be hoped, new accretions will be made, both to the visible memorials of Harvard life in the past, and to the general knowledge of that life among the members of the University.