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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-We wish to express our sympathy for yesterday's letter-writer; that ingenuous youth, who "cannot conceal his embarrassment when he hears his own blunders laughed at." We suppose the poor fellow cannot keep back the scalding drops that rise unbidden to his eyes each time the instructor dares to say his English is faulty. Poor fellow, we sympathize with you. We, too, have had pet themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Allow me to express a very general opinion of an instructor's action in publicly ridiculing the mistakes in composition which students made in examinations. With the evident intention of exciting ridicule, extracts are read of themes which have been written under great pressure, when revision was impossible. The instructor starts the laugh, and naturally the students are not slow to follow his example...
...subject, this of the man who has some music in his soul, but who is moved to express his soulful feeling by something else than the concord of sweet sounds. Not once during the whole course of the examinations has a word of complaint been uttered; but the time his come when pent-up sufferings must at last find vent in words. Neither the piano flend, nor the man who plays any of those hideously shaped, and fearful sounding instruments-whose names are known only to members of the Pierian Sodality-is here found fault with...
...this case the contrary does not seem to have been proved. We had supposed, moreover, that such race prejudices as these had long ago died away, if indeed they ever existed in a great degree at Harvard, and that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside press comment unfavorably upon this strange action. Harvard claims to open itself to all, to offer the advantages...
...undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems more than probable, they must do the reverse, ask the committee to give way themselves in deference to the express desire of the under-graduates. If the committee cannot see their way clear to yield on this issue and still remain as future advisers to the student body, why the time has certainly come to tender them our hearty thanks for their past services and accept their resignations. This done...