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in the history of Radcliffe College. The domestic 

 and social life which, with the help of the students 

 themselves, we may build up in the homes we hope 

 to provide for them, seems to me hardly less valuable 

 than the academic education offered them by Harvard 

 University. It should be at least the fitting accom- 

 paniment of their scholarly attainments. 



Great as our pleasure is in being able to offer 

 for the first time a home of their own to our students, 

 we are nevertheless aware that many of them have 

 formed delightful associations, and have come 

 under the happiest influences in the homes opened 

 to them by the kindness of Cambridge families. For 

 this we and they are deeply grateful. But in Bertram 

 Hall and in the other halls of residence which we 

 hope to establish in connection with it, the attitude 

 is and will be somewhat changed. Here in Bertram 

 Hall, for instance, our students instead of being 

 guests are hostesses. It is their own home, where 

 under permission of the Mistress they can exercise 

 a certain hospitality. We all know that the character, 

 what we may call the bearing, of a home is something 

 which it derives from the quality of its inmates. 

 The maintenance of such a character in its highest 

 sense will depend upon the students themselves, — 

 upon their own refinement, simplicity, and dignity. 

 Toward this we will gladly help them, and^we shall 

 feel more closely drawn toward them, and they will 

 feel, we hope, more nearly allied to us for the very 

 reason that we work together toward this end. But 

 we would have them all remember at the same time 



