GOD'S GREAT JUDGMENT SEAT

In allowing Freshmen in the Engineering School to apply for rooms in the Houses at the same time as Freshmen in the College the University has done the proper thing. The decision follows logically on the agreement made last year granting admission to those who were then Sophomores and Freshmen. Although it is stated that Engineering School students will not necessarily be admitted every year, it is hoped that their inclusion this year will establish a precedent.

It is not because of any idealistic reason that men in the Engineering School should be part of the House Plan. It is not because their "scientific training" will blend with any "academic culture" to produce the ideal broad-minded Harvard man that their presence therein is desirable. The idea of a cross-section has been pretty well dispelled this year. The broadening influence of the House Plan can fairly well be termed an educational dream. It is, however, because Engineering School students are Harvard undergraduates as much as the men in the College that their inclusion in the House Plan is not only justifiable but entirely logical. If not bound together with their academic brothers through the classroom, they are the more mutually interested in each other through common participation in athletics and extra-curricular activities. The friendships formed in these phases of university life will be furthered now that all undergraduates are together in House Plan.