RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Today the CRIMSON has a more varied circulation than at any other time during the College year. Graduates of all classes are again in Cambridge in order to renew old associations and to keep up with the changes made in their absence. Harvard has long been distinguished for the unusual devotion of its alumni and perhaps at no time is this spirit brought more to the public notice than in the events of Class Day.

Any Harvard alumnus will be made welcome today in Cambridge, but it is the men who rate the number of their years since graduation in multiples of five that will be most in evidence. The numerals of 1904 will no doubt be particularly noticeable for twenty-five years out makes the recognition of wives and children a tradition, and secures something very like a hundred per cent attendance on the part of members of the class. Some of these men are back for the first time and have to catch up with a great deal of past history. Their classmates have changed and more even than they the College has changed. But in these almost frenzied affairs there should come the consciousness of a simpler more quiet welcome, and the CRIMSON wishes to extend to all returning graduates the sincere wish that they may feel at home in a Harvard which differs from the one they knew only in the more obvious externals.