COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY.

A member of the United States cabinet stated recently that, in his opinion, Harvard alone, of all the American colleges, could lay true claim to the title of university. No doubt excellent grounds for such an assertion are to be found in the wide scope of the University's curriculum and in its national character, as shown in the fact, for example, that men from 144 different colleges are attending the Law School. Both these phases are well known. Not so commonly realized, however, is an equally conclusive evidence derived from the number of men holding University degrees who are on the faculties of other colleges. Taking at random eight representative western universities, the CRIMSON has found that of their faculties an average of nine per cent. hold Harvard degrees. The highest percentage is in Missouri, where 36 out of 241 men are graduates of Harvard; Wisconsin comes last among those investigated with 6.3 per cent. At Columbia, the largest university in the country, the percentage is 9.3. Furthermore, there are 608 professors and associate professors, who hold Harvard degrees, teaching in other colleges throughout the country; and the number of instructors and assistant professors is without doubt much larger.

These data show from a different standpoint the influence exerted by the University over the higher educational system of the entire country.

At this point it is easy to lapse into unjustified complacency. The Harvard College man should take note that this national influence is the work mainly of the Graduate Schools; and that it is they and not the College which is national in the domiciles of its members. Only some 400 out of more than 2500 undergraduates come from places west or south of Pennsylvania, while only about 150 live west of the Mississippi. More than half the undergraduate enrollment is from Massachusetts alone.

As the situation now stands with respect to the College, much initiative and some well-considered innovations in the entrance system are imperative if we are not to have the curious phenomenon of a college forming the nucleus of a national university.