A LIVING LEGEND

"Among the traditions of Lowell House.... perhaps the most prized is our Master himself." So said a past issue of the Lowell House Chronicle. Proudly it characterized Jullan Lowell Coolidge as a "living legend," Lovingly it described these quirks of habit well known to local mathematicians since the beginning of the century, even better known to Bellboys since the House was built. Such affection is a rare tribute to the man who has proved himself not only a scholar and a teacher, but a successful pioneer Housemaster.

It was thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part for so many years.