MEMORIAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES.

The promised activity of the Memorial Society for the second semester is welcome and well planned. Nothing requires more constant vigilance than the keeping of University history and tradition before the shifting undergraduate body. The Society has in the past rendered excellent service, through its various memorial exercises and kindred activities.

No student can live at Harvard long without receiving some impression from the memorable buildings with their old associations which fill the Yard. But very few know much about the rapidly passing generations of college men who have lived in them. The lists posted in some of the dormitories, although now no longer up to date, help a little to remedy this; and it is encouraging to note that they are to be extended to the rooms of the other buildings. It may be suggested that, inasmuch as the names of the better known recent members of the University still have some currency among present undergraduates, it would be of value to keep the lists already posted up to date. For, except in the case of men who have achieved wide fame, the names of graduates of the last few years mean more to present occupants than those of twenty or more years ago.