This morning Harvard University begins the two hundred and fifty-fifth year of its existence. With a glorious record behind it and every prospect of material prosperity ahead the outlook is encouraging in the extreme. Today it will incorporate as a constituent part of itself the largest number of men ever gathered together in one class, who for the next four years will share its fortunes, and rejoice at its successes, both academic and athletic. The freshman class, which today finds the college a novelty and a curiosity, will, as its predecessors always have done, soon experience that affection which is to last through life, and that same feeling of loyalty which rivets itself upon every group of Harvard men. Each new comer should remember that he has it in his power to promote the welfare of the college, according to his abilities, the one in athletics, the other in study. Each one, on arrival, finds himself greeted, not as in most colleges, as an infant, but as a man. It therefore behooves him to work like as a man to bring glory to Harvard. To the new class the Crimson extends its cordial greeting. It also welcomes back to the work and pleasure of the next nine months the seniors, juniors and sophomores, who during the summer have been scattered over the continent. They know their duty-may they fulfill it l