Beginning today all parts of the Union, with the exception of the Library and the Dining Room, will be open during the regular hours, from 7.30 A. M. to 12 o'clock midnight. The Dining Room will be started this noon, and tomorrow the Library will be opened.

The Union will be open for inspection to all members of the University until a week after the opening of College. After that time only members of the Union will be admitted. The annual dues for active membership are $10, and any student enrolled in a department of the University during the current academic year may have his membership dues charged on his term bill. An associate membership with annual dues of $5, payable in advance, is open to officers and past members of the University living within 25 miles of Cambridge, and to students in the departments located outside of Cambridge. Associate membership does not give the privilege of voting. Information in regard to non-resident and life memberships may be obtained at the Union office.

With the exception of breakfast this morning meals will be served to members in the Dining Room at the regular hours: breakfast, 7.30 A. M. to 12 M.; luncheon, 12 M. to 2 P. M.; dinner, 6 P. M. to 8 P. M. Light refreshments may be obtained through the bellboys from 12 M. to 11 P. M. The ladies' dining room and reception room and the gallery of the Living Room will be open daily from 12 o'clock noon to 3 P. M. to ladies accompanied by a member. The entire building will be open to ladies accompanied by a member on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month.

Union's Place in the University.

The following statement of the purpose and status of the Union is intended especially for new students. The Union was founded in 1899 by Major Henry Lee Higginson h.'55, and was intended by him to be "a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal." It has proved to be not only this but a meeting place for individuals, for organizations of many kinds, for mass meetings and class smokers, an eating-place which alone in Cambridge supplies the need of first-class restaurant fare and adequate provision for University training-tables, a reader's resort with library and files of newspapers and periodicals, a place where those inclined may play games and billiards, a headquarters for the undergraduate papers, the CRIMSON, Advocate and Monthly, and in short an institution aiming not only to supply many material needs of the students in the University, but also to foster the best ideals of comradeship, loyalty and unity in college life.