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...January 26. The article on the Student Council is a clear and forcible statement of the purposes and functions of that organization, and should do much to commend it to the student body and thus help to secure for it a high degree of efficiency. There is also a cordial word of welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat as president. There will be doubtless a general approval of the editorial...
After the cheering had ceased Mr. Lowell expressed his grateful appreciation for the cordial greeting. The office to which he has been as yet only nominated he considers of the greatest importance in the development of the United States, for the welfare of the country is dependent on the character and efficiency of the young men, which are being moulded in our colleges. His concern for them is as much for their associations with each other in a high and ideal atmosphere as for the things which are taught and learned. Expressions of his opinions on various subjects...
...spite of the cordial terms in which the undergraduates are invited to the University teas at Phillips Brooks House, too many men who would enjoy these informal receptions if they attended, fail to respond. When Phillips Brooks House, tea, and members of the Faculty and their wives are mentioned in the same breath, signs of alarm appear. But those who have summoned up their courage and attended the teas in former years have not found them in the least formidable. On the contrary they have found an excellent opportunity to enter into sociable conversation with men whom they knew previously...
Another admirable thing about him was his cordial hospitality to students at his house, and his sympathy with them when they were in academic trouble. When you went to him, you felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties...
...House is thrown open tonight with cordial hospitality to all newcomers to hear of the work and opportunities, and to enjoy a sociable evening together...