THE HARVARD UNIT.

The word that the Harvard Unit has reached this side of the Atlantic is the last episode in a striking example of the service which a university can render in time of war. Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick.

A university which merely teaches men to enjoy the arts and sciences, which creates a class of intellectuals, does not fulfill its complete purpose. Unless the college man rolls up his sleeves and tackles the practical issues around him he is in no position to criticise the man of inferior training who does. This straightforward meeting of the problems of the day is the University's teaching.