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Rh under existing conditions of professionalism and commercialism, President Eliot does not perhaps word it too strongly when he says: "It is clearly the duty of the colleges, which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and to become intense, to purge themselves of such immoralities, and to do what they can to help the secondary schools to purge themselves also."

Harvard University has a form of government different from that of other American universities. Since 1650 the corporation has consisted of the president, the treasurer and five fellows, who are in certain respects responsible to the board of overseers, which is now elected by graduates of the college.

By the courtesy of the Harvard Graduates Magazine, we are able to reproduce here portraits of the present members of the corporation. The body is so small that the members take, an active interest in the welfare of the university; they have always been men of distinction in the community.