The advent of a new Freshman class is always the occasion of a series of receptions and speeches of welcome and advice intended to draw the new arrivals together and make them feel at home. We hope that such gatherings will be arranged this year as in the past; but as they are at best only artificial methods of accomplishing their purpose, it may not come amiss to suggest to the class of 1911 that the real opportunities for becoming acquainted as individuals and united as a class lie with themselves. However many classmates they may meet at large or small receptions, they will never feel well acquainted until they have come in contact in some more natural way.

This will rarely come about through classroom associations, because of the size and nature of most Freshman courses. It is only by entering enthusiastically upon one of the many fields of activity which Harvard offers--athletic, literary, philanthropic, etc.,--that a man comes to realize his true position in the University and to come into close touch with his classmates. A few men err in devoting themselves half-heartedly to any interest for which they feel a passing fancy, but they are in the minority. We are confident that a serious application to some interest outside, but not to the exclusion of his studies, will make any man's college career more beneficial and more satisfactory to look back upon.