A Closer Relationship.

Technical obstacles have been swept aside and the establishment at Harvard of a fully recognized officers' training corps has been assured. It was not alone the emergency of the hour, revealing the nation's need in more way than one, which justified this commendable action. The students themselves had more than demonstrated their fitness for such recognition. No more striking evidences of the resolute service which college men are ready to give, and of the patriotism they feel, has ever been offered in time of peace than the organization and faithful drill of the Harvard Regiment surely testified. Where there was such will to be of service, surely it would have been a pity to deny full recognition. There will be a great deal closer sense of relationship to the Federal War Department among the men of the regiment under their new terms of enlistment, now that they are assured that commissions will be available to graduates in time of need. The technical restrictions usually imposed upon land-grant colleges in return for the position now sought by Harvard, it is to be hoped, will soon be revised and adjusted to meet the natural requirements of the University. Of course the specifications as to drill, including numerous hours each week, are very difficult for Harvard to accept as contributory to the requirements of its B. A. degree. But there are the summer camps at Plattsburg to supply the men with just the kind of drill and indeed even better, that the War Department has always required and surely attendance at Plattsburg will be found an adequate substitute. --Boston Transcript.