Replying to an enthusiastic ovation at the beginning of his lecture in Government 1 yesterday, President Lowell said in part: "Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the University should be distinct and separate: I do not sympathize with those ideas, but I do know that to make a college what it should be, to have it be of service to all the students who come to if, is not be any means and easy thing.

"We should have it said that Harvard turns out better all-round men than any other college mentally, morally, and physically. I am wholly incompetent to do this alone, or even with the help of all the Faculty. I shall need the cooperation of all of you in order to be successful."