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At the beginning of his administration, President Arthur Cutts Willard gave an tial value in the personal education of the student. He knew that the Union would help cement great friendships between men and women, students and faculty, people of various ages, races, and creeds Friendship assumes nobility when it is built on something vital mutual in terestsin intellectual ideals, common pursuits, the stimulus of vivid personalities upon one another. Already we know that, in the associations formed in this building, stu dents are hammering out the,,- political, social and religious faith their personal and moral convictions. Of such contacts is real leadership born.