The opening meeting of the Graduate School was held last night in University 5. Addresses were made by James Mills Pierce, former dean of the School, by President Eliot, and by A. S. wheeler '96, president of the Graduate Club. Dean Wright presided.

Professor Pierce spoke of the great advantages the Graduate School possesses in having, as its students, men who come with the predominant and absorbing idea of hard work. The varied motives which actuate men in the College are all merged into one serious determination to obtain a thorough knowledge of a particular subject. The scope of the Graduate School is much higher than that of the College, for the standard of admission to the one is the standard of graduation from the other. In closing, Professor Pierce extended a warm welcome to all new-comers.

President Eliot, who followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted by a rivalry that is most friendly.

Attention was then called by President Eliot to the state of affairs which is beginning to exist in this country. As has long been the case in other countries, the number of men developed by our professional schools has been greater than the demand for teachers in the colleges. Men should not despise, therefore, positions in secondary schools. The good that would thus result to the community from having men of the highest intelligence, or the finest professional training take charge of elementary education is beyond estimation.

A. S. Wheeler '96, president of the Graduate Club, was the last speaker. Ten years ago, he said, the men from outside colleges who were studying in the Graduate School, formed the "Harvard Intercollegiate Club." Soon afterward, the name was changed to "Graduate Club." Its present aim to cultivate social as well as intellectual qualities, should be sufficient inducement, he thought, for all new-comers to join the Club.