THE WEST AND SOUTH.

It is very gratifying to not the unusual amount of interest taken this year in Harvard's campaign throughout the West and South. President Eliot left Cambridge yesterday on an extended trip to this section of the country, where he will visit many of the leading institutions of learning and speak before the various Harvard Clubs. This journey will take him further south than he went last year, and place him before many audiences who know little or nothing of the true spirit and ideals of the University. J. D. Greene '96, the secretary of the Corporation, is in Rochester today on his way home from a month's trip in the Middle West, where he has been addressing many universities and discussing entrance examinations with high school principals and others. Professor E. C. Moore, a graduate of an Ohio college, is now in Illinois on a journey through about the same district, which he undertook at the request of the Alumni Association. Assistant Dean W. R. Castle '00 delivered a number of speeches last fall on his way to Honolulu, and E. H. Wells '97, secretary of the Alumni Association, spoke throughout the whole Northwest on a trip which took him as far as the Pacific Coast. The CRIMSON and Bulletin are doing what they can to spread information, by sending copies of each paper gratis to a great number of high schools and preparatory schools all over the country.

At first thought all these descriptions of our virtues may seem rather an unnecessary and vulgar form of advertising, but on consideration the merits of this far-reaching plan are evident. Across the Hudson River, the idea prevails that Harvard is too much a New England college, and that a man from the West is not welcome here. It is to dispel this unfortunate illusion and to present the true state of affairs in Cambridge that speakers are being sent throughout the country, armed with facts which cannot be controverted.

We feel that the result of these efforts is merely a matter of time. The enthusiasm aroused among the graduates by the visits of the President and his colleagues and the interest shown in their addresses by strangers cannot fail to increase the registration from the West and South to such an extent that it can no longer be said that Harvard does not represent the entire nation.