THE RESTING ELDERS

It is hardly necessary to extend a formal welcome to the new graduate students of Harvard University, since the name Harvard itself symbolizes all that is finest in the traditions of scholarship. Nevertheless it is the CRIMSON'S desire, as the vehicle of undergraduate expression, once more to recall that the graduate student should consider himself an integral part of Harvard and not, as has been so often the case with men whose college work has been done in some other institution and who have taken graduate courses elsewhere, merely an appendage whose sole connection with the university is the fact that he sits in its class rooms and listens to its lecturers. While there is no desire either on the part of the University or the men themselves that graduate students distract their attention from their work by engaging in undergraduate activities, neither is there any reason why they should feel themselves isolated from all phases of university life. A man may or may not care to look upon Harvard as a continuation of his undergraduate career but in no case is he ever doomed to hermitage.

The opportunities for self education here are numerous and none is closed to the graduate student. Older, more settled than his younger brothers his ideals may find their realities in things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion.