SOUND THE RECALL.

The appointment of Professor Charles H. Haskins as a member of the Rhine Boundary Commission of the Peace Conference cannot but be hailed with satisfaction by those who have worked under him here. Professor Haskins is eminently fitted for his new work by years spent in an exhaustive study of the many European boundary disputes of mediaeval and modern times.

However, although as students of Professor Haskins we may appreciate the honor conferred on him, it is with grave concern that we stop to count up the number of prominent members of the Faculty who are still away from their posts at Harvard. Four are now serving as advisory members of the Peace Conference, where their services are hardly to be dispensed with, but many more are still engaged in work at Washington and may not return for many months. While deeply conscious of the invaluable services which they have performed during the war we feel that their continued absence from Cambridge is possibly an unnecessary drain on the effectiveness of University Administration. Would it not be possible to recall some of them from positions at present less important to fill the places of those who, like Professor Haskins, cannot be spared over there?