And the dawn comes up to wonder

at the dancin' in Back Bay.

On the Road to Old Back Bay,

You may flunk out on the way,

Oh, it's paved with good intentions is

the Road to Old Back Bay.

On the Road to Old Back Bay,

Where the Boston matrons pray,

Pray for husbands for their daughters

Out of Harvard 'cross the way".

F.D.R. Visits

Members of the Class of '29 will perhaps remember other, less typical signs, foretelling a New Deal future. Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, newly elected governor of New York State, made three trips to Cambridge during the College year, twice to speak to undergraduate groups in the Union, and the third time on Commencement Day to receive an honorary degree. Innumerable Harvard alumni undoubtedly marvelled at a later date that their University could have bestowed an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon FDR with the citation: "...A statesman in whom is no guile."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, who resigns this year, was already attacking the G.O.P., as Hoover and Governor Alfred Smith faced each other for the presidency in the fall of 1928. Forty members of the faculty joined Schlesinger in charging, "the G.O.P, reeks of oil," but undergraduates ignored this plea for progress and lined up solidly behind Herbert Hoover.

Perhaps the biggest news of 1928-29 was the coming House Plan. President Lowell marked the approach of his twentieth year with the announcement that his greatest wish would be fulfilled: the College would be subdivided. It was a major news event that inspired much unfavorable criticism from the Class of 1929.

The CRIMSON pictured the College "at the crossroads of her social and educational progress." Guided by President Alan R. Sweezy, managing editor Richard A. Stout, and editorial chairman George Weller, the daily decided it would rather have men "shape their own intellectual destiny and their own breadth of social direction... than to have that destiny and breadth bestowed upon them." This scholarly protest was largely lost amid the vehemence that arose from the 40 Bow St. establishment, however.