Nil Nisi Bonum.

Harvard has been divided in this campaign, but not noncommittal. Harvard has always been inclined to condescend toward national politics, and to view all candidates, as we should say in France, from high to below. The Nomad remembers watching the Harvard classes as they filed past in the great torchlight parade in favor of Blaine in 1884. There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side of which was a caricature-portrait of Blaine, on the next one, of Cleveland, and on the third, one of Butler; and these were respectively labelled, in the above order, "the World, the Flesh and the Devil!" Round and round the transparency turned.

The characterizations needed no explanation in 1884. Perhaps they do now. Blaine was regarded as worldly because of the Credit Mobilier and the "Burn this letter" episode. Cleveland was--well, fleshy; Brisbane's "girthy Princeton person" is remembered. And Butler--well, demortuis nil nisi bonum. Boston Transcript.