Mr. Gosse at Harvard.

Mr. Edmund Gosse in a recent interview with a reporter of the Critic speaks as follows about his impressions of Harvard :

"I was deeply interested in comparing our Cambridge with this Cambridge. It is not like old Cambridge or Oxford. We keep up the old domiciliary system. Our colleges are like medieval fortresses; they are shut at night from the freest of the world, and not a soul can get in or out without the porter's bringing the keys. At Harvard it would be impossible to do that. Harvard gave me the impression of an English college in the quad of which a shell has burst; the halls are all separate, and you can walk around them. There and precision of life in our two Universities. They have lost all that at Harvard. I have found that not all Americans remember the relation of Harvard is an alumnus of Emmanuel Collegem, Cambridge, and I suppose Cambridge here was named after Cambridge over there.

(It might be a subject worth investigating, why, our college never patterned after its English foster-mother, in walling itself from the outside world. Our own impression is that, in colonial times, the college was too poor to erect an enclosure, and that, later, it world have been deemed contrary to the principles of the Declaration of independence to fetter the American youth with the restrictions of the domicitiary system.

ED. CRIMSON.]