Mr. James Byrne has been elected a member of Harvard's corporation, and very ably representative qualities he brings to his new position. There is always a demand, as there is a need, that the fellows of the University should not be wholly drawn from among men resident here in Boston, however much it might contribute to the prompt and easy despatch of Harvard's business to have them so chosen. Since the death of Mr. Robert Bacon, this need of outside representation had gone unfulfilled. Mr. Byrne's appointment supplies it. A New York lawyer of the first rank, a man who has manifested his interest in education and the things of scholarship throughout his life, not only by his personal attainments but also but his association with the governing boards of two New York institutions of higher learning, he is well fitted to share in the management of affairs at Cambridge.

To his qualifications as an "out of Boston" candidate there is added a greater force of indorsement than any implied merely by his New York residence. Through his presidency of the Harvard Alumni Association he has for his constituents the whole body of the alumni who by ballot selected him to be the head of their organization. The good grace, the especial fitness, of including such an officer among the fellows of Harvard just at this time when the generous response of alumni the world over has carried the Harvard campaign for endowment to all but its final triumphant conclusion, is too evident to need comment When one considers also the new breadth of representation which Mr. Byrne brings to the board in his capacity as the first Catholic ever elected to be a member of the Harvard corporation, the interest of his appointment stands revealed in its totality. --Boston Transcript.