Exeter Men Entering Harvard.

During the past few years the delegation of Exeter men entering Harvard with each new class has materially lessened in proportion to the number attending the Academy. The major portion now go to Yale, Princeton and the smaller colleges. Yale receives most, and the rest are divided among Princeton, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Dartmouth. Why this change has come over the former feeding school of Harvard many fail to perceive. The explanation is that a student may fit himself without especial effort for Yale and the other colleges in three years, while a man to enter Harvard must remain another year, although there are a number of cases where men by dint of assiduous application have passed the necessary examinations at the end of the Middle year-that is, a three years residence. Thus many men in order to gain a class go to other colleges solely on this account; and not, as it has been stated with utter falsity, that Harvard has lost its prestige in the eyes of the faculty and students of the Academy. From present favorable indications the tide promises to turn again toward Cambridge, and if the delegation of next fall is a true precursor of the feeling in the lower classes of the school, this non-temporary attendance of Exeter men will soon be forgotten.