AN IMPROMPTU MASS MEETING.

The best thing about the mass meeting last evening was that portion of it that took the form of an impromptu demonstration which followed the meeting in the Union in front of President Eliot's house. It is a novelty in Harvard College to have such demonstrations of esteem and admiration and for that reason it was all the more genuine. It was a case of taking advantage of our opportunity, and our opportunities are limited from now on. In this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present optimism was the keynote of his speech and we are all enlisted at his invitation in discovering the right man, a man in the very flush of the prime of life, to undertake the responsibilities which have been his for forty years. The successor will be found and it has seemed best that he be found now.