Show MEMORIAL HALL Student Lite There are in present attendance in the various departments of Har- vard University about 4800 students and the attendance has for a series of vears varied but little This large student body draws its annual quota of recruits from nearly every state in the Union from Canada Mexico Australia Hawaii the West Indies and from various European and Oriental countries Supremely catholic and cosmopolitan in spirit Harvard opens wide its doors to all seekers after knowledge and treats with impartial generosity the sons of millionaires and m' HARVARD cit Harvard the poor fellows working their way through college the descendants of the artistocrats and those of their negro slaves the graduates of Oxford Paris or Berlin and the “green freshman” conditioned in one or more subjects Verily to Harvard deans “all men are created free and equal” and the only thing that ever can bring prestige to a Harvard student is definite proof of superior ability It would be impossible to convey an adequate idea of the daily life of any one of these thousands of young men without first presenting some pre-Revolution- ary |