We take pleasure in publishing this morning an article on the recently established Workingmen's Reading Room, and congratulate the originators of the plan on their success in materialising their project. Counter attractions to the evil influence of the common recreation grounds of many workingmen are necessary, and there is certainly no more beneficial line of philanthropic work than that which offers to workingmen a pleasant and wholesome resort where they can be thrown on a seemingly equal footing with those who are interested in their welfare. The charitable work undertaken by Harvard men has always had such an aim, and the present step may be taken as a distinct advance and one truly worthy of support.