EIGHTEEN HONORED

The announcement yesterday to the effect that eighteen members of the Harvard faculty had been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a larger number than was chosen from the faculty of any other university, is an indication that Harvard's staff is still one of the foremost in the country. It is a tribute to Harvard's scholarship and at the same time an admonition that to maintain her standing, faculty replacement must continue to embody those fundamental policies which have functioned so successfully hitherto.

The University has maintained for a long period of time the designation as one of the leading educational institutions of the country. However, with competition becoming more intense between colleges for first place among institutions of higher learning, Harvard's prestige has been threatened. No longer can she boast that the best authorities in all fields of learning are numbered among her faculty; no longer can she point with pride to every department of the University as an example for other institutions to follow. Cases in point are the Engineering School, and the School of Education, both in need of renovation if they are to compete successfully with similar schools of other universities. Several of the faculties of the Arts and Sciences department need young men of intellectual vigor to carry on when the older men are gone.

One of the primary problems of the new administration is this question of faculty replacement. If Harvard is to maintain her traditional high place among American universities, she must see to it that her faculty continues to be characterized by profound scholarship, intellectual creativeness, and progressive temperament; those qualities, in short, which make possible the election of educators to the American Academy of Sciences.