THE GOVERNOR'S DEGREE.

Harvard is expected to make Gov. elect Rovinson an LL. D. without unnecessary delay. It was thought that when Gov. Butler did not receive this degree, that the practice, once having been broken, would not be resumed, but already the degree is suggested for Robinson. The lack of it did not bother Butler much, and his successor will not discover it to be of special value. The Harvard daily HERALD-CRIMSON takes the proper view of this LL. D. Business. It would have the custom of conferring the degree upon the governor of the state "remain a thing of the past;" but "if Mr. Robinson should show by any of his acts that he has any particular claim upon the degree aside from the fact that he is governor of the state of Massachusetts, let him receive it, but let the degree be conferred upon the man and not upon the office." And that is how it should be. To hand it out according to any other reasoning destroys whatever worth it may possess. [Progress.