The Index.

The Harvard Index for 1889-90, which has just been published, shows marked improvement over last year's Index. The binding is practically the same as last year, but the size of the book has been increased by about twenty pages owing to the unusually large freshman class. to the formation of a number of new societies, and to the addition of Warren Hastings Hall to the room directory. A successful attempt has been made to arrange everything systematically, especially in regard to the various societies and organizations. An attempt to make the book correct in detail has not proven so successful, as several of the societies did not send in their lists of members. Moreover, there are numerous mistakes in the directory due to the fact that the advance sheets of the Catalogue-which the Index has used in former years-had not appeared in time to make the necessary corrections.

As is customary the first pages of the Index contain the various social and literary organizations. The papers, the departmental clubs, the religious societies, the literary societies, the social clubs, the musical organizations, the school clubs, the state clubs, etc.- all are arranged most systematically, each by itself. In the list of class secretaries a change has been made. In the last Index when the secretary of a class was not known, it was so designated; this year, not only is the fact designated, but the name of some prominent member of the class is added.

A brief summary of the games of the '92 freshman eleven is another new departure. The score of each game the '92 eleven played last year is given, together with the make up of the Harvard and Yale freshman teams. There is also a record of the Harvard-Yale freshman games since 1876, according to which Harvard has won the championship five times, Yale three times, draw twice, and no game three times.

In the summaries of the field and winter meetings of the H. A. A., the names of all entries do not appear, as was the case in last year's Index. To simplify matters the Index this year contains the names of only the two first contestants in each event.

The summary of the base ball games is very clear and concise. What in former years occupied over two pages has been condensed into less than one half and put in a much more readable shape. The date, place, and score of each game is given, but the make-up of the Harvard team is omitted excepting in the case of championship games where the full score is given.