A TEXTLESS HOMILY.

Our enterprising neighbor, Technology, is this week undergoing a thorough 24-hours-a-day test of its engineering equipment, by all its engineering students, working in eight-hour shifts. Harvard, to be sure, has no such test of its material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years" is at hand, and therein is to be found no chance for "shifts."