THE END OF "MEM"

Sentiment may attribute the passing of Memorial Hall to the decadence of the present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall ceased to fill the need.