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The appointment of an advisory committee to assist the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet in deciding its future policy marks an attempt on the part of this organization to acclimate itself to the change which the introduction of the House Plan will bring about in Harvard. With the Union fated to become the Freshman Dining Hall and the Yard dormitories on the point of being turned over to the first year students, Phillips Brooks House will necessarily be forced to assume many of the responsibilities formerly taken care of by other institutions. The appointment of a committee to assist in determining a solution for these new problems as they will come up is a progressive move that is some assurance that the officials of Phillips Brooks House desire to meet the new aspects of the coming Harvard with as broad minded an attitude as is possible.

With the disbanding of the Union, Harvard will be deprived of facilities for the meetings of many committees and organizations. In addition to this, there will be no place in which graduate students can meet with the freedom that was formerly theirs in the Union Living Room. The final consideration is the fact that with the exception of Strauss Hall Common Room, there will be no place in the Yard for Freshmen to congregate.

All of these problems can in some part be solved by Phillips Brooks House. They are in a position to effect a sufficient change in their present policy that will help to alleviate the stress that the coming innovations will bring about. As a meeting place in the Yard this house can fill in the inadequacies that the loss of the Union and present Freshmen Dormitories will give rise to. A liberal attitude on their part will go far toward bringing about a successful transition from the Harvard of the present to the Harvard of the future.