The present period of extensive building operations which are changing the external appearance of Harvard and enlarging her material boundaries has seen no more important or successful erections than those imposing Georgian edifices which line the Cambridge banks of the Charles. The Freshman Dormitory System, eminently an expression of the new Harvard, has proved its worth. In thirteen years it has become so integral a part of the University that one wonders whether or not its value is restrictive to a larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded it. At any rate it is impossible to conceive of Harvard without this most admirable aid to collegiate orientation. And now another link is added--McKinlock Hall, the formal dedication of which takes place today...

As a memorial to their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr., his parents could not have chosen a finer tribute than another Freshman Hall. It is at once a splendid commemoration to one who never lived beyond the years of youth himself and it is also a substantiation of a major note in the university's aims--that of making the first year as pleasant and as satisfactory as possible. McKinlock Hall joins the distinguished company of Smith, of Gore and of Standish and like them it stands as a vital and powerful influence on the men of Harvard.