The Cap and Gown

It was one of the shrewdest and kindliest observers of student life, himself a long-time resident of Cambridge and a genial friend of Harvard men, who said: “It is a never-failing delight to behold every autumn the hundreds of newcomers who then throng our streets, boys with smooth, unworn faces, full of the zest of their own being, taking the whole world as having been made for them, as indeed it was. Their visible self-confidence is well founded and has the facts on its side. The future is theirs to command, not ours; it belongs to them even more than they think it does, and this is undoubtedly saying a good deal.”