A COSMOPOLITAN CLUB.

We already have so many organizations with more or less worthy purposes that another seems somewhat superfluous. The Cosmopolitan Club, however, will cater to a class which has at present no representative organization, although its possible members form a much larger number than are enrolled by many of the small and specialized societies which annually spring into existence.

Aside from the field which it opens, this club should be able to accomplish much in the way of bringing foreigners into closer touch with the leading men in their classes. At present, the foreign element, with a few exceptions, occupy an isolated position, not on account of their nationality, but because there is little to make them acquainted with their classmates.

It will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College office or the Freshman advisers: and so that more advanced students will realize that this interest is not exhausted in perfunctory receptions, but continues through their College course.