The committee of the Harvard Student Council made history in 1926, and are now writing it in 1932. What they modestly describe as a "footnote to Harvard history" will be found elsewhere in the present issue of the Bulletin. While making no claim to originality, and acknowledging their indebtedness to Frederick Winsor '93, as well as to the educational currents of their time, they justly affirm their independence, It is a matter of no small importance that this initiative should have come from undergraduates of Harvard College. The House Plan met with its most formidable resistance in that quarter. It could never have succeeded if it had been imposed on its supposed beneficiaries by a benevolent paternalism. It owes its present strength largely to the fact that when it came the need for it had already been felt, and felt by those whose need it was supposed to meet.

All of the histories of President Lowell's administration which have appeared have dwelt upon its logical coherence. It seems clear that it will be known not as a more series of years, but as an era, a chapter in educational development. The same was true of President Eliot's administration. The sequence of the two is not unlike the transition from laissez-faire to "planning and control" in the economic world. But whatever the central idea under which President Lowell's several reforms can best be included, there is no doubt that each step was the natural and proper sequel to what had preceded. The series not only was logical, as it presented itself prospectively to the mind of President Lowell, but (which is much more important) is logical now that it is realized and can be viewed in retrospect. Harvard Alumni Bulletin.

(Ed. Note:--The article referred to is reprinted elsewhere in this morning's CRIMSON.)