DISAPPOINTING EXAGGERATION

We agree most heartily with Senator Hollis that the University should keep in close touch with the world without its, gates, particularly in a political way. Evidently, however, he does not realize how great the progress toward this has been. We Would like to call his attention to a few casual examples of labor in outside fields by members of the Faculty-to the work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work of The of Professor Holcombe as a member of the first Minimum Wage Board in the country; to the work of Professor Taussig, for years the recognized leader of Free Trade in the United States. These men are not the only examples of the live wires that connect Harvard with of the great affairs of the country. When he accuses the undergraduates of too little interest in outside affairs, he is absolutely right..

But Senator Hollis has not spoken in a way calculated to make us accept even his good ideas as such. We seldom give much credence to a man who inveighs against any institution with a radicalism so unbalanced by a Knowledge of the facts. The sensational type of the article on colleges has often enough been commented on in this column and elsewhere. That a graduate of the college such as senator Hollis should take so little Pains in investigating or considering the truth of many of the popular illusions in regard to it, before placing it in so unfavorable a light is something hardly to be expected.