THE LIVING NAME

The naming of the erstwhile Holden Twins which has dragged over so many months has been accomplished at last not only with care but with inspiration. The name of a college building seems a trivial thing, but actually it is the cornerstone on which all its traditions must rest. Those who have never seen the structure will think of it always by its name, from which they will create their own impressions. Those who know it well will make the letters above the doorway stand for a multitude of feelings, call to mind a host of memories.

Fortunate it is that these dormitories have escaped a stodgy and commonplace nomenclature, such as the epithet of Brown, Smith, or Jones, with appropriate initials. Lionel Hall has been particularly lucky in this way. It will always have about it the romantic tradition of the man for whom it was named, who in dying passed on his vision of Harvard.