The New President Chosen

Professor Lowell has been chosen as the next President of Harvard University. For a number of years he has been considered in this community as the man most likely to succeed President Eliot. This feeling was based primarily on his effective administration of the various offices he has held here and elsewhere, in which he has shown a sane and comprehensive judgment, admirably equipped for work required of an executive officer.

To the undergraduates, the election of Mr. Lowell is of particular significance. No man in the Faculty of recent years has been more actively interested and arrived at a fuller appreciation of certain problems of the student body. He has believed in going straight to the heart of things, of determining from the student himself what the actual situation is and planning a solution accordingly. It is to be expected he will pursue this policy. His especial interest during the past year, that of effecting the best method of rewarding high scholarship, in which he has done much constructive work, is only one of many such problems in solving in which he can lend his experience. Intercollegiate athletics remain in the balance in the minds of some men and during the next ten years it will require an energetic conservatism on the part of the leader to bring about the best results. Harvard College can be made to share in the growth of Harvard University. The new President has spoken in the past on the question of the Yard dormitories and on the feasibility of a large Freshman dormitory. The possible reorganization of Memorial Hall provides another opportunity. Undergraduate honor, both in and out of the class room, can be materially strengthened. There are those who believe the morality in the community is better today than ever before. It can be made considerably better.

These topics are vitally connected with the welfare and happiness of the undergraduates. The CRIMSON believes Mr. Lowell stands at the beginning of a period of brilliant service to Harvard and to the ideals of integrity, scholarship and vigorous manhood which have been nobly combined in his predecessor.