FOR HARVARD AND FOR HOUSE

Harvard "viewers-with-alarm" now view with alarm a disintegration of classes once out of College. It is felt that the spirit of kinship among members of classes under the Crimson banner, and the spirit of loyalty to the old school, are growing less marked than were their wont. Such a feeling makes itself most readily manifest in the failure of Classes of the more recent vintage to make good on all occasions towards the Harvard Fund.

Loyalty to Harvard, whether expressed through good deeds or the purse, serves to pay every Harvardman's debt to the predecessors who helped make his stay here enjoyable, or profitable, or merely time-filling. It pays the debt by making it possible for succeeding generations to rest awhile on Massachusetts Avenue.

When looking for cause for growing disunity, note is taken of the increased size of Harvard in the last two decades and of the growing diversity of its students' backgrounds which can scarcely fuse adequately in four years. But as the real villain, emerges the House Plan.

Locals of sufficiently retentive memory will tell as a fact that there now exists less sentiment of "classmates, just classmates" than before the consummation of President Lowell's supreme segregation. This makes sense a priori. Put a man in one of the Houses for three years, and he is certain to come out considering himself not a member of the Class of 19. . as much as a member of blank House, graduating in 19.

This state of affairs may well point towards action beneficial to Harvard and to House. Energetic Houses might shortly set up Alumni Associations. The continued unity and loyalty of the Class as a whole will continue to exist such as it may. Beyond this there would be born after graduating a closer unity and loyalty of the members of a House in any year. If this loyalty finds expression through the purse, such expression helps both the House and Harvard.