RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 327 
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 
