Last week the organization was completed of a society that has been in contemplation for some time, and which it is hoped will fill a place of distinct usefulness in the University and among Harvard graduates. As the object of the society as stated in the constitution is "to foster among students interest in the historical associations of Harvard and to perpetuate the traditions of her past," the name "Harvard Memorial Society" was decided upon as best expressing the nature and purposes of the organization.

The membership of the society is active and honorary. The active membership is to be made up of about twenty-five or thirty men from the senior class and a smaller number of graduates resident in the University. The honorary membership is made up of a limited number of non-resident graduates, including those especially who are interested in historical work or who have done considerable service to the University.

On May 7, eight members of the class of '96 met and organized. A constitution was adopted, and Dr. Justin Winsor was elected president, Professor Albert B. Hart vice-president, and Arthur C. Train '96 secretary. On Friday evening of last week Dr. Winsor invited the members of the society to his house and there the organization was completed. The full list of officers was elected and plans were talked over. A primary object of the society will be to arrange courses of lectures by well-qualified men on subjects connected with the history of Harvard and on distinguished graduates. Another object of the society will be to mark rooms or sites of rooms in college buildings once held by famous graduates by means of tablets of bronze or stone, transmittenda, or otherwise. Other sites of historic interest connected with the University will be properly marked if possible. Arrangements will be made for the collection of pictures, books and manuscripts connected with the past of the University and the proper disposal of the same so that they may be easily accessible. The endeavor of the association will be to inspire a deeper feeling of interest and reverence for the associations and traditions of Harvard, to make the students more sensible of their obligations to those who have made Harvard what she is, and to make them acquainted with the part the University and her graduates have played in the history of the country.

Beyond the perfection of plans and the organization of committees who will have charge of the lectures, marking of sites and the like, probably nothing will be done by the society this year. At the beginning of next year more men will be taken on from the senior class and active work will then be begun.

The following is a list of the officers and members of the society:

President - Dr. Justin Winsor.

Vice-president - Professor A. B. Hart.

Secretary - A. C. Train '96.

Treasurer - C. Dickinson '96.

Archivist - W. G. Brown Gr.

Curator - G. L. Paine '96.

ACTIVE MEMBERS FROM '96.A. C. Train, G. L. Paine, S. Heckscher, E. V. Frothingham, A. M. Kales, F. S. Hoppin, C. Dickinson, J. D. Greene, (charter members).

J. C. Fairchild, J. A. Gade, A. E. Ingalls, H. E. Addison, R. M. Townsend, J. G. Palfrey, A. H. Bullock.

ACTIVE MEMBERS FROM RESIDENT GRADUATES.President Charles W. Eliot, Dr. Justin Winsor, Professors C. E. Norton, W. W. Goodwin, E. Emerton, N. S. Shaler, A. B. Hart, E. Channing, S. M. Macvane, L. B. R. Briggs, J. B. Thayer, C. Gross, Messrs. A. C. Coolidge, W. H. Tillinghast, O. G. Villard and W. G. Brown.

HONORARY MEMBERS.William H. Furness, C. F. Adams, G. E. Adams, Henry Adams, C. J. Bonaparte, J. C. Carter, J. H. Choate, T. J. Coolidge, A. Mc F. Davis, Horace Davis, John Fiske, S. A. Green, H. L. Higginson, T. W. Higginson, G. F. Hoar, William Lawrence, A. L. Lowell, John Lowell, H. C. Lodge, Henry Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, John C. Ropes, H. E. Scudder, W. R. Thayer, Charlemagne Tower, H. P. Walcott, Roger Wolcott.