The Free Wool Club.

At the meeting of the Free Wool Club to be held this evening in Sever 5, the executive committee of the club will bring before the meeting a proposition to make certain changes which will tend to widen the interests the interests and extend the membership of the organization. This proposed change is not intended to weaken in any way the past support of the dogma of free raw materials, the platform on which the club was founded when the excitement over the tariff question was at its height, but to include other reform doctrines which are attracting general attention and which are claiming the support of all persons interested in the welfare of our national institutions.

It has become evident to the executive committee and other members of the club, from the interest shown in the society by the many liberal and progressive men who while not unreservedly advocating free raw materials have joined it, recognizing that the club represented a broader reform spirit than its name would imply, and from the nature of the address delivered last year under the auspices of the society by Congressman Breckenridge on the "Responsibilities of Power," that the organization was gradually tending to become what it is most desirable for the University to possess, a general reform club. To change the Free Wool Club into such an institution, or rather formally to rename it and remodel its constitution to suit the actual modifications in its character is the gist of the proposition which the executive committee will make before the meeting tonight.

As the Harvard Reform Club, nonpartisan and standing pledged to support such conservative reform movements as from time to time it may espouse, the organization cannot fail greatly to widen its influence, and to become a power in the University. More, and men of even greater national significance will speak under the auspices of the club since not only the range of subjects which can be pertinently touched upon, will be wider but there will be nothing in such a name as the Harvard Reform Club which might make the most timid, suppose of ballot reformers, dread being compromised to free trade, as he might with some reason fear, by speaking publicly under the auspices of a Free Wool Club.

Under such conditions the Free Wool Club would be of great value to the University by reason of the opportunities it would afford to hear wellknown public men discuss in Cambridge questions of living interest. The men in the neighborhood of Boston alone who could, and who in all probability would, if invited, make addresses each on his own reform, present a most inviting lecture list, and would appreciably augment the already enviable reputation which Harvard holds for ever fostering the spirit of intelligent and honest politics.