The Open Mind.

It is meet and right that a paragraph should be addressed to you who are freshers. But we [unclear: hesitate] to depict ourselves as waiting on the front steps of the College with arms outstretched in a pose of Grecian welcome willing to [unclear: clasp] you to our bosom. We are not like that; nor would our collective bosom be very comfortable for the embrace Dualism, we feel, must triumph in such matters.

Better far to repeat the facts of present day growth and decay, to remind you that you are free in some measure from the pampered [unclear: atmosphere] of school and home ready to fact the cruel realities of life. On all sides it is admitted that we are in as era of transition in which we are learning to despise the selfishness so dominant in the economic and political spheres. We are preparing to crush many of the pseudo-moral principles that have hag-ridden us for centuries. and [unclear: it] is in realising the grossness of these outworn [unclear: precepts] and in overthrowing them in your own mind that you can learn most from presence at a University.

Dulled by [unclear: caily] routine, harassed by exams and lectures, absorbed in the details of specialised study—despite this, all true students must devote time and thought to the broad principles of future social development. Without this broad outlook there is no University, but a true night school. without this there can be no training in citizenship.

To freshers we suggest no "gold rush" to the text-books and creeds of well established faiths, but rather at first the exploration of their own minds. In the varied round of sport and swot, [unclear: let] there be some space for the cultivation and searching of your own outlook. "Know the self," said [unclear: Socrates] and we would [unclear: any], "Go [unclear: thou] and do likewise."