THE SENATORS AND THE UNION

One of the oldest pictures of the University in existence, a print entitled "A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England", carries a footnote lauding the zealousness of the students in striving for the public welfare. Perhaps the British engraver changed his opinion after the events of the last half of the century; but the interest of the Harvard undergraduates in public affairs kept on unabated.

When Hutchinson, the first Harvard man to be chosen governor of the province, took office, bells were rung and the whole Harvard student body assembled in Holden Chapel to celebrate the occasion.

Not quite a century later, the activities of Harvard undergraduates in carrying out religiously the spirit and the letter of the "Hard Cider" campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", led to certain unpleasantness with officials in Cambridge-port. Campaigns in the "Colleges in Cambridge in New England" have always been featured by torch-light processions stump-speeches, charges and counter-charges as vigorous and often as vituperative as those in an alderman's election in a closely contested ward.

Things are very little different today. The coming election will not be celebrated like Hutchinson's by hymn-singing in Holden, nor like Harrison's by "horse sense" and "hard cider", with too little of the former and too much of the latter. But the interest is still there and tonight at the Union, the open meeting of the newly organized Republican Club, with men like Senator Moses and Senator Wadsworth speaking, will be crowded with students "zealous in their interest for the public welfare."