The December number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, which is just out, contains several very interesting and instructive articles.

The contributions on William Eustis Russell, Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney and Professor Francis James Child make it in part a memorial to those eminent and honored Harvard men. It is not often that Harvard has suffered the loss of three such prominent sons. But the influence of their lives has not vanished with them and the memory of their attainments and their usefulness will still incite numberless Harvard men to imitate the earnestness, liberality and love of what is good and true, that made them useful citizens and true Harvard gentlemen.

After all, it was their great usefulness that gained them the high place which they had in the world and in the hearts of those who came in contact with them. And it was their liberality and earnestness that made them useful. Their lives are really the examples from which we should learn the love of liberality and tolerance in all things which makes a man's life and the world about him better.