The announcement that Major Henry L. Higginson is to be the speaker at the Memorial Day services in Sanders Theatre and that he is to speak of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw is one which will please every one. There is no part of Harvard's history in which all are more interested or of which Harvard men are more prout than the record of the University in the late Civil War; and of all the Harvard men who took part in that war there is none whose memory is more honored than that of Colonel Shaw. Major Higginson is particularly well fitted to speak of him because of the intimacy which existed between the two, and because, while in the army, they served in the same regiment. Under the circumstances, it seems safe to predict that an unusually large crowd of students will attend the Memorial Service this year.

In this connection it is a satisfaction to learn that the Memorial Society is to have charge of the Service. Before the founding of the society two years ago, this duty fell to a committee of students appointed by the president of the Senior class. But now that there is an organization of students for the purpose of studying and keeping alive the history and traditions of the University, it seems entirely fitting that it should take charge of this occasion.