"If the needs of the service require your entire attention, you will, of course, disregard, for the present, all your obligations to Harvard, except the supreme obligation of representing her worthily in this crisis." This statement issued by President Lowell to Harvard students, now in the service of the Commonwealth, typifies ideals for which Harvard University stands,-devotion to the government, upholding its power abroad and at home. President Lowell is not bound by a false sense of values. If need be registration and the listing of studies can be delayed; duty to the state comes first.

This last step taken in the attitude of the University toward the Boston riots is a fitting corollary to the part played by graduates and undergraduates in the troubled times last week. The great courage shown by Harvard volunteer policemen in facing the mob of hoodlums has given the University and college men in general a position of trust in the minds of law-abiding citizens. The latter will realize more and more that in education and in the spirit of the atmosphere created at Harvard and other colleges lies the hope of a safe passage at this stormy period for the ship of state.