There is often a tendency noticed to speak slightingly and even contemptuously of the wealthy classes at Harvard, merely because they are wealthy while other equally worthy men are not. In a Harvard man particularly, such contempt is scarcely becoming. Throughout the history of the college, its steady development in all directions has in large part been made possible by the benefactions of just such wealthy men. Many of our University buildings bear the names of their wealthy donors; our athletic fields have been gifts to the University; our highest professional chairs have not seldom been established by the liberality of individuals; and the long list of scholarships, which have put the Harvard culture within reach of hundreds of poor students, stands as very living proof of Harvard's indebtedness to the wealthy. True, the wealthy may also have been idlers; but it is not for a Harvard man to cast this up against them, and to condem their successors in the undergraduate body on that account. The class which has so largely contributed to make Harvard University what it is, and on which it must in future place great reliance, deserves something better than contempt, even the slightest.