Show STUDENT LIFE 108 versity and the consequent comDiverse plexity of student affairs activities and interests segregate life into a multiplicity of currents which however have certain rallying points such as the chief intercollegiate contests and the annual Commencement Of course no single student can be regarded as typical of the entire body By force of their environment the students in the departments of Medicine Dentistry and Agriculture all of which are located outside of Cambridge lead a life differing in many ways from that of the great majority of students residing near the college yard But here too are many differences The students of the graduate and law schools have their special aims and interests and among the undergraduates class organizations tend to differentiate the student body It must not be inferred however that a spirit of class hostility exists Sixty years ago the lower classmen were subjected to innumerable persecutions indignities and even bodily injuries at times resulting fatally at the hands of the juniors and seniors Xow hazing is quite obsolete The only trace of former class wars is seen in the form of “rushes” which occur regularly on the evening of the first Monday after the fall opening The particiinsophomores and pants are the buildings is constantly being freshmen Within the ancient yard creased by purchases donations silent witness of a hundred such and the erection of new “halls The teaching corps numbers 55° broils one of the classes selects what the leaders consider an immembers This brief outline must suffice to pregnable position and the object of the enemv is to dislodge the chal- suggest the magnitude of the Uni of the University of its departments its topography and its environment to serve as a background for the numerous phases of activity which compose the broad and rather vague concept “Student Life” No one who has not studied at Harvard can fully appreciate the historic significance and the magnitude of the institution Contemporary with the very genesis of the nation antedating the War of Independence by almost a century and a half today the oldest and by common consent the foremost of American institutions of higher education Harvard is also a living chronicle of the growth and progress of this country and a testimony of the constant interest of its citizens in the education of their sons At no time has the school retrograded At no time has it enjoyed more prosperity than at the present: never h a more glorious future beamed upon it The administration of President Eliot has been marked by an era of unparalleled expansion The University at present comprises seventeen departments commands an annual income of a million and a half and owns real estate to the value of over five million dollars This property represented mainly by an area of over 500 acres of land and fifty large kind of rough outline-sketc- h ¬ |