We are heartily in sympathy with the plan of having the University represented in the parade which is to be held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the City of Cambridge and we feel that the abandonment of the scheme would be a thing to be deplored. The interest among the undergraduates will surely increase as the event draws nearer, and cannot be fairly estimated by the canvass that has just been taken.

Harvard college is the largest and oldest institution in Cambridge. Around the University the city has grown up. It is consequently necessary that in any parade which shall be representative of the various interests of Cambridge the University should take an important part. It would show a poor spirit indeed if the undergraduates refused to help in making the celebration, which means so much to the citizens of Cambridge, a success. It is little thing that the city has asked of Harvard students, and even if the men feel no personal interest in the occasion, they should be willing to do this much for their University and their University town.

At the time of the last presidential election over a thousand undergraduates marched in a political parade, and most of them did it purely for the fun of the thing and not because they had any real hearty interest in the event. Now, on this much more important occasion, when every individual should feel an active interest in the celebration both as a student of the University and a citizen of Cambridge, the enthusiasm should be far greater.

The success of the parade depends largely upon the support given to it by the undergraduates. Furthermore, it is distinctly to the interest of the University to be represented in the parade, and with two such motives as these no student should be unwilling to take part in the celebration on June 3.