The voice of the September Freshman, like unto the one crying in the wilderness for fame and elusiveness, has been answered in many different ways. The needs of a Freshman, although miscel laneous, and met by himself with more satisfaction than by anyone else, have had the attention of upperclassmen at Harvard for several years. During that time the benefits of the system have fluctuated, its value rising and falling with the varying enthusiasm with which it has been carried out.

The changing nature of the way University Hall looks upon the Freshman has brought corresponding changes in the undergraduate relations with him. The segregation of the Freshman class in the river dormitories with a view of giving them what may be termed a class consciousness, a sentiment that is believed to undergo a renascence in the Senior year, has its weaknesses. One of them is that acclimatization comes slowly. There has been a corresponding growth in importance of the service rendered by the student advisory board.

The official hand is shown to cast an undergraduate shadow when the student advisory board concludes that the system of personal visits is outworn, replaceable by one that will recognize that certain of the functions of the old advisory boards are now in the hands of the proctors. The changes made by the Student Advisory Committee last spring have proved completely efficacious; it is to be hoped that the plans for the guidance of the class of 1932 will continue to advance an idea whose most substantial progress has been made within the year.