Much has been said during the last month concerning the losses which our universities are suffering by reason of diminished attendance due to the war. But the experience of Oxford and Cambridge, the great institutions of higher learning in England, should be pertinent as demonstrating that if the war lasts long enough its effect on our colleges will not merely be shown in figures of decreased enrolment, or financial deficits, or courses of study omitted. Three years of war have virtually taken away from these English universities all their physically-fit students. In their place are coming the young men who have been crippled by wounds or invalid beyond the possibility of further active service, and who now seek from the universities the scholastic training which will enable them to earn a livelihood by means other than physical labor.

Harvard and Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, and with them all the other colleges of this country, should not be unmindful of the grim legacy which a year or two of this war will bring to them just as it has to their sister institutions on the Isis and the Cam. They should look ahead, for this is the time when foresight counts with both men and nations. Let us have less attention to what the war has already cost our colleges and give more to what they can do, to meet the new problems which the war is bound to bring into their own halls. --Boston Herald.