The final report of the student investigation committee, published this morning, puts an end to an episode which has been intensely disagreeable, to say the least. To the members of the committee the thanks of the whole University are due for their satisfactory performance of a most distasteful duty. Their success has been a service to Harvard which can hardly be over-estimated. It has accomplished two things. It has shown to the outside world that college sentiment is done, once for all, with mere dissatisfied toleration of such stupid behaviour, even on the part of the most unsophisticated members of the University; and that, in the future, it will handle like offenders without gloves.

The affair is also calculated to furnish a significant object lesson to new students. Incoming classes will do well to remember, that in obtaining for themselves the privileges of a course in Harvard University, they voluntarily become members of a society whose good name must necessarily be affected by their individual acts, and that every principle of good breeding, or rather of common decency demands that they jealously guard the reputation of the institution to which they owe so much.

The work of the committee, therefore, will not have been in vain, if it has served to emphasize to schoolboys entering college, and to the general public that Harvard men consider that their first duty is to Harvard.