There is a good lesson for the undergraduates of Harvard in the devoted interest with which the graduates are now giving their time and energy to a movement whose principal object is to make the life of those now resident in the University pleasanter, stronger and more united. Such service can be prompted only by an intense realization of what the University has done for them in their undergraduate days and a grateful desire to do what they can to make Harvard mean as much and more to their successors. A committee appointed from their number have made a careful study of the student life as it exists at present and have found that the de-centralization of interests coming with increased numbers and the elective system, in spite of the many advantages that have come at the same time, has taken something away from college life which the older graduates prized and which they wish us to enjoy. The present tendencles, so far as they are harmful, they think can be checked by the proposed University Club or Union, and they recommend, as a result of their careful investigation, that steps be taken as soon as possible to found such a club. In response to their recommendation a committee is now to be organized to proceed at their discretion, after ascertaining the opinion of all the graduates, to raise money for the club building.

What should now be the attitude of the undergraduates and other members of the University now in Cambridge? Here are a number of graduates, including some of the wisest and best of Harvard's sons, who are ready and anxious, if the University Club project commends itself to maturer deliberation as it has done to first, and indeed to second thought, to support it with all the energy at their command. Is it not the only natural response which we, for whose good they are working, can make, to give them our united sympathy and support from now on? A critical, conservative attitude is the only safe one to maintain during the early stages of such an important enterprise as this, but it must not be thought that interest and even enthusiasm are incompatible with conservatism. The very names of the graduates who are interested in the project and have it in charge are assurance positive that no rash steps will be taken. Let us, who are younger, not feel bound to lay too much stress on the side of the matter with which we are less concerned, but furnish as much of enthusiasm as we know the graduates will of wisdom. If we do, it is safe to say that the failure of any plan in which both of these forces are united will be a simple impossibility.