The Columbian League.

In December last, Mr. Samuel Abbott (A. B., Williams, '87), wrote to one hundred of the professors of Political Economy in the United States, asking whether in their judgement it would be possible and desirable to form a league with the primary object of further organizing the growing dissatisfaction with current political methods, now observable among the best classes of all parties, into active and concerted opposition. Of the fifty who replied, forty thought that such a movement would meet with the support of the educated classes as represented by college men, and thirty men in as many institutions of learning have offered their services to aid in the work of organization.

At an informal meeting held at the University of Pennsylvania, Saturday, April 8, 1893, a committee was ap

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