So traditionally established and so many times evidenced is the odd trait of human nature which leads men to neglect wonders near at hand while they go travelling over the face of the world to view, wonders elsewhere, that there is no need to exclaim very loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known hill in his neighborhood with you to show you the way, and you may discover he has never set foot before on its premises.

By the very conditions of the case, none of these Harvard men of Boston will go to Cambridge as newcomers on Saturday. They have spent four years there and they know the Yard, well. Some of them, undoubtedly, have followed the course of the University's growth very closely. But with equally little doubt it may be said that many of them, at their reunion visits, have spent less time and effort in a serious endeavor to learn the fact of the institution's condition and service than have many alumni who come from a distance. It is human nature. So Harvard will bring them together in Cambridge tomorrow for a real sight-seeing tour. There is evident merit in the plan, both for Harvard's sake in general, and the endowment fund in particular. All success to it! --Boston Transcript.