After so many years of active service at Harvard University, it is hard to realize that but little over a month remains of President Eliot's term of office, and that tonight will probably be the last opportunity for all the members of the University to hear him speak. Throughout his career, the President has addressed the students several times every year, and they have always been only too glad to come to his addresses. At Freshman receptions, at meetings of the Union, at Brooks House conferences, at academic meetings in Sanders, at dinners and at other occasions without number, he has spoken on subjects of every description and he has never failed to interest and delight his hearers. Whatever the matter at hand, the speaker's breadth of vision and masterful handling have astonished his audiences, accustomed as they are to hearing men with only one subject, and hardly able to conceive of one individual who apparently knows a good deal about everything in this world. On municipal government he is recognized everywhere as an authority, and on the other great questions of the world his ideas always carry great weight. The mind which can grasp these matters has been used with equal force on questions of University life. We have often heard his views on athletics, the dormitory problem, three-year graduation and other subjects of interest of Harvard men, and although we have sometimes disagreed with his ideas, we have always been glad to hear them and have treated them with the greatest respect.

Tonight he is to speak on "Education as a Career," a subject which no one is better fitted to discuss than he. From a small New England university, Harvard has been made a great national institution through his untiring efforts, and the whole spirit of education throughout the country has been improved by his ideas. President Eliot has won eminence in many fields; in education he is pre-eminent. This chance to hear him is a rare privilege.