Many forms of recognition for the war-work of American college students have been proposed and adopted -- from the granting of academic degrees to the printing of special groups of names in commencement programs and college catalogues. The Bulletin has been in sympathy with the Harvard authorities in the position they have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have done in the war is a plan of recognition pursued by the University of Minnesota.

It is none other than to send to every past and present member of the university in active military or naval service, or serving abroad in one of the recognized forms of auxiliary service, a small medal--a sort of pocket-piece or lucky penny--on which appears the name of it holder and a few words testifying to the university's appreciation of what he is doing for his country. The cost of each token is only about thirty cents. A coin of the same character was carried by Minnesota men in the Spanish War, and proved a token of association highly valued at the time and ever since.

There are few good ideas which occur everywhere simultaneously. Here is one which loses none of its value for Harvard and other colleges because they did not happen to think of it first. We do not undertake to suggest the precise method of making it applicable to the Harvard men in service; but the necessary machinery, utilizing perhaps the home addresses of men in service, perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving to every Harvard fighter a tangible emblem of his university, to be carried into whatever danger, may appeal. Should it tall into the hands of the enemy, it could suggest only the quality of the backing that is behind so many Americans. --The Alumni Bulletin.