No Headline

A marked change has taken place this year in what might be called the societies for instruction,-the Historical Society, Conference Francaise, Deutscher Verein, etc. Last year it was the instructors and professors who exercised control; this year everything is given up to the student members. Such a change is only another result of our elective system. It is the adding of another responsibility to those the undergraduates now sustain. Harvard University assumes that a student is a responsible being and acts accordingly. The year is not far enough advanced to test thoroughly this new experiment; but the trial gives promise of perfect success.