The New York herald., 1922-05-26
HARVARD TO FOSTER
GRADUATE STUDENT
Assimilation Urged to In
crease His Affection for
University.

CAMBRIDGE. May 25.-The problem of
assimilating at Harvard University the
graduates of other colleges who become
students at Harvard graduate schools
was considered in a report by special
committee which was made public TO-
day. 1t was urged that every effort
| be made to give graduate school students
and alumni their full rights as MEM
bers of the university and to impress
upon the alumni their obligations to the
university.
The committee included in its member
ship four college presidents who attend
ed Harvard as graduate students. Presi-
dents Angel of Yale, Aydelotte of
Swarthmore. Nelson of Smith and Sills
of Bowdoin. 1t found that sit appears
unquestionably true that some students
| in our graduate schools and the alumni
of such schools who have graduated
| from colleges other than Harvard feel
unfriendly toward Harvard. or at least
to the Harvard of their conception. which
is apt to include only the undergraduate
body and the alumni of the college.
There is far larger group who do have
the keen interest in and affection for
| the university which we would WISH
The question of Harvard allegiance
! among its graduate students comes up
annually in accented form or the occa-
| sion of ticket distribution for the big
| football games. in which the under
| graduates are given preference, some
| times to the exclusion of graduate stu
dents. The committee suggested that
this preference might be given up owing
| to the feeling of many loyal graduate
school men that so long as discrimina-
| ton exists in this matter they will IN
stinctively regard themselves as out
| siders."
| 1--WE do not believe" the report con-
Guided. that enough has been expected
| of the alumni of our graduate schools in
| return for what they get from the uni
| versny Every Harvard college man
is made to feel his obligation to his
college in numerous ways. He Is thick
skinned if 1t is not brought home to him
decisively. But the graduate of'a school
, Is by comparison made to feel little obli-
cation"
The memorial which Harvard is to
raise in honor OF the 371 men of the
university who died in the world war
| will not be decided upon for the present.
| the committee in charge made known
to-day. If present views are followed
| it will not be of a primarily utilitarlau
nature.
or the suggestions which the commit
tee has considered a chapel, carlton
| tower or a monument, or a combination
of two or of all three, were regarded as
most nearly meeting the idea in mind.
The committee praised a suggestion Of
memorial scholarships, but said that
scholarships alone could not fully meet
the conception of a memorial.
The committee chosen to accent a site
for the proposed memorial to Theodore
Roosevelt reported that the Harvard cor
poration had assigned for this purpose
plot of land in Quincy street just north
of the Harvard Union. The proposed
memorial is to consist of headquarters
for the staff of college tutors. with a
memorial reading room.
Present publicity methods of the uni
versity were commended lin report by
group of Harvard. editors and pub
fishers.