AFTER HOURS

Tonight at the Union the University steps from behind registration blanks, study cards and other impersonal but relentless emblems of officialdom to give a hearty welcome to its new members as Harvard men. Business hours are over the shutters are up, and the Class of 1926, after marching and counter-marching across the Yard in open order all day as individuals, can assemble and look itself in the face for the first time as a class, one of the largest in the history of the College.

"Reception" is too formal to describe the meeting tonight; "at home" would do much better, for there is no R. S. V. P. on the invitation, and those who stay away will be only those who find they can get along without getting acquainted with Harvard.

Tonight 1926 for the first time will hear President Lowell and Dean Briggs and that will mean, as it has for the classes of many college generations past, the "beginning of things".