Year after year new students come to Harvard. Year after year they are confused by the multiplicity of things that they have to do. Many are without rooms, many expect to meet friends, and yet few know how to find their way around the University, where to board, or how to solve the thousand and one problems that confront them. If they are lucky enough to know someone in the University their way is easier. However, for the man who is just entering, who knows no one, the road is hard and memories of the first trying days are apt to be decidedly unpleasant.

The situation is not a new one, nor one that has been overlooked by the University. Every effort has and is being made to make the troubles of those who are here for the first time as few as possible. The Student Advisory Committee, the Phillips Brooks House Information Bureau and the Sophomore Committee for Information are the most notable examples.

All these organizations offer information and advice; they do not offer any possibilities for social intercourse. Harvard recognized, however, that social life is an essential part of college life and that a club, founded on democratic principles and open to all members of the University, might do much to overcome social distinctions and to make the years in Cambridge more pleasant. It was for this purpose that the Union was established by one of Harvard's greatest benefactors--Major Higginson. Whether such a purpose is realized depends largely on the members who will take the opportunity to join before October 7.