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The first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world.

To keep Harvard men in touch with the University is an ideal often proposed; to accomplish it is a large but most important task. With the Committee in operation, no graduate need ignorantly compare favorably or unfavorably, the "good old days" with a present which is doing its best to communicate with him. That deep-rooted interest which graduates take in their university is a matter outside the ken of the undergraduate; but he has every reason to be grateful that after graduation there will be a medium through which not only will the University be able to speak to him, but he will be able to speak, if he so desire, to it.

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