President Van Hise who lectures today under the auspices of the Wisconsin Club upon "The Concentration of Industry" comes to Harvard by no means as a stranger. As an educator and the administrator of one of the largest state-endowed universities of the country, and as the author of a standard work on Conservation he is well known. The topic which he is treating embraces many of the most perplexing economic problems which are to be solved in the near future. His lecture giving the ideas current in the middle west should be particularly interesting to a Harvard audience.

The Wisconsin Club deserves particular credit for having brought it about that President Van Hise should give this lecture. There are many state and sectional clubs in the University that could do a great deal for Harvard by following the Wisconsin Club's lead. Three distinct branches of activity, that are not often fully realized, lie open to the state and locality clubs at Harvard. First, they are in a position to keep students who come from the same state or section of the country in more or less constant touch with each other; secondly, by communication with the Harvard Clubs at home and by direct contact during vacation time with the Harvard graduates there, they can keep alive an interest about Harvard in their part of the country; and, thirdly, bring it about that the well known representative men from their locality may speak at Harvard whenever it is possible for them to come to Cambridge.

In the first respect almost all state clubs are active, in the second a few, and in the third almost none. If each state club made it a point to secure one representative man each year to lecture under its auspices at Harvard, a great step would be taken toward bringing the University into touch with ideas from every section of the country, and also toward bringing all sections of the country better to know and understand what Harvard stands for.