KIRKLAND ALUMNI NEWS

The appearance, today, of the Kirkland House Alumni News is a milepost in the development of the House Plan, an indication whose significance is deeper than the six mimeographed pages of "general interest" notes would at first suggest. Beneath the informal, chatty nature of this slender publication lies, in an essential way, all that is implicit in the term "House," all that the founders of the House Plan have hoped for.

Such an occasion seems fated to evoke the customary platitudinous ponderosities relative to the development of corporate personalities within each of the seven units, and to necessitate praise for those whose initiative conceived and brought forth the new paper. Suffice it to say, in this connection, that, considered from a moderately broad viewpoint, the step seems inevitable.

But the importance of the Kirkland House Alumni News lies in the suddenness of the appearance of anything of the sort. The House Plan was bound, eventually, to break down class lines, but that it should have made so long a step in that direction within the course of two short years is clear-cut testimony of the strength of the force that has been set in motion.