RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT

Harvard continually proselytes, declared a prominent official of the University recently, not to recruit undergraduates, but to obtain the finest possible faculty material. The announcement of the illustrious additions to next year's teaching staff bears out the truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief that, if Harvard is to retain its supremacy, it is essential to wait sometimes several years rather than fill the faculty for a generation with good but not exceptional men. The mills of the gods grind slowly and silently, sometimes too silently, for it is seldom that the University at large is aware of the highly important and difficult work performed by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.