THE UNION'S WELCOME

The new student has been welcomed, officially and academically. He has been told, formally and informally, "when" and "where" and if he is a Freshman "how". The old student, astute upperclassman, that he is, full of the wisdom begotten by experience, is beginning to be seen about the Yard,--now that the hand-shaking is over. . The college is settling into its stride.

But now comes the Union, to throw open its doors tonight; to display, not its wares, but its place as a cog in the University's machinery. Time was, and not so very far back, when the Union's deficits ran so high and its popularity so low, that those who held to Major Higginson's ideal almost despaired. All that has changed in the last few years. The Union is now beginning to be what its donor wanted it to be, an active center of University life and common club of all Harvard men.

But even the Union must have its turn at the new student. Tonight it offers its welcome. "Open night," with the inauguration of the series of slow-movies of the various major and minor sports, speaks well for a Union season which promises to be closer than over to the many-sided activities of the college year.