Today Ninety-one's undergraduate life will close. It is for us who are left behind to tell how successfully her course has been run. We wish we could find words graceful enough to pay even a part of the tribute which is owing to the class about to graduate. Its most striking characteristic, perhaps, is the steadfastness with which it has followed out the liberal and progressive spirit of the University. Many changes, radical in outward form, have taken place in Harvard during the past four years; yet at the bottom they have all been but the exemplars of the earnest spirit of advance which pervades every department here. Officers and instructors could not have made progress in this work were it not for the help of the students; and today, as we look back over the past four years, we can see that Ninety-one has been an able helper in all the reforms which have been making Harvard a more complete university.

For the students the athletic side of life here appeals strongly. In this department Ninety-one has been pre-eminently successful. Her men entered college at a time of athletic depression and indifference. They especially have the ones to lead Harvard to a better state of things,-to victory. Yet it is not her victories alone in which Ninety-one may feel the most proud. It is in the broader athletic development to which her earnestness has led us; an earnestness which is the synonym for courage and truth.

Ninety-one has thus helped Harvard, and at the same time herself. She now leaves not to '92 alone, but to all the succeeding classes, the duty of working for the same high ideals which she has helped to set. The same spirit which has led her through the course will make her strong to leave the place where her work is done, and to look steadfastly to the future. Our best wishes attend her.