CLOTHES AND THE MAN

Today, according to custom, the Senior Class will don the Cap and Gown, which, for centuries has been the mark and badge of the scholar. Time, which has made such inroads on our traditions, has in so far pravailed that the period during which gowns are worn is now but a scant seven weeks of four long years of undergraduate existence. From the first of May until he receives his diploma, custom demands that the Senior stand forth in his primary capacity as a seeker after knowledge.

For it is as a student that he is most directly related to the University. Founded as a place where one might "enter to grow in wisdom", sustained by the labor of men of scholarly attainment, it is fitting that Harvard Should each year be honored by its sons through the adoption of the garb which best symbolizes its purpose and meaning. Any-one who is not willing to pay this slight tribute to his Alma Mater, must have profited but little by his four years at Cambridge.