The enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation.
The conduct of Harvard men in the Revolution and in the Civil War is sufficient answer for the college man of the past. For the present, until some great crisis like the Civil War arises, there can be no decisive answer to the charges against our practical loyalty. But outward enthusiastic demonstration must be taken as the partial expression at least of an inward feeling; and there has been no lack of outward expression of interest in politics this fall.
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