The recent action of the Photographic Committee of the Senior Class in taking into its own hands the publication of a book similar to the former "Portfolio" is a very commendable step. There was a time when the "Portfolio" and the "Index" were regarded as undergraduate publications; when they were handed down from year to year by a member of one class who published either book to a member of the follwing class. The transfer was made upon the payment to the former student who had been the publisher during his Senior year of an amount equal to that which he himself had paid. In this way one member of each class was enabled to pay a large part of his expenses for one college year by publishing the "Portfolio" and another man was enabled to do the same by getting out the "Index."

Several years ago, however, the same man published both books while he was in College, thus depriving another man of the opportunity of paying for the greater part of a year's education. Not satisfed with this he selfishly copyrighted both books, refused to hand down the copyrights; but retaining them, annually rented out the books so that each year there was paid to him for the privilege of publishing each book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which it is hard to imagine would be perpetrated by any Harvard man who had known how hard men struggle to gain a livelihood here while they are getting their college education.

More than this it amounted to a breach of trust. The publications were held as a business investment by one who had been morally bound to turn them over at the end of his senior year to a man in the following class.

In the publication of a special "Index" this year the College itself has done much to put an end to this most selfish practice so far as that book is concerned; though we hope it will realize that there is a possibility of affording some man a chance to earn his way by publishing the book. The Photographic Committee of the class of Ninety-eight has put an end to the same practice of renting the "Portfolio." Though the same rental is still paid the benefit now goes to the class and not to an unscrupulous person who had no right to receive such profit.

There is yet another publication which fills no distinot place whatever and which is run much on the same plan as were the "Index" and the "Portfolio"- the "Club Book." There seems to be no way of supplanting this publication except by including in the book to be published under the auspices of the Senior class all that is now contained in the "Club Book," and by a refusal on the part of every undergraduate to have anything to do with the publication of that book. By doing this the representative college publications will receive a more hearty support by the business men who have been persuaded in the past, very largely by misrepresentations, to advertise in a publication which is not distinctly undergraduate in its character.