Largely owing to a lack of subscriptions, the committee on the proposed University Club has not taken any definite steps during the past year. And it looks very much as though this state of affairs is, in part, at least the result of the small amount of active interest taken in the plan, especially among the undergraduates, for whom the club was designed. It seems reasonable to suppose that if the pressing need for the club were more clearly demonstrated and more generally known, the subscriptions to the fund would be larger and more numerous. There is now a strong feeling among the students that an institution on the general plan of the English university clubs and Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania is really needed in Cambridge, and that the longer delay there is in starting it the greater will be the misfortune to the University.

Meanwhile the Corporation is continually receiving donations from an infinite variety of sources for an almost equally great variety of objects, many of them being for the founding of scholarships and aid funds of several kinds. While these gifts are admirable things for the few students who can derive benefit from them, it is to be regretted that more of them cannot be placed in a way that will make them valuable to all the students. If those who have money to give to Harvard could only realize the present need of a University Club, and that donations to it are primarily for the good of the whole University, it might help to materialize the scheme at an earlier date than is now hoped for.