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DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - One of the items in your issue of yesterday seems to refer to my former communication to you. Excuse me if I say that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen...
Judging from the contents of a recent communication, many members of the freshman class seem to think that the upperclassmen are inhospitable inasmuch they do not invite freshmen to their rooms. We would respectfully state that as yet the upper-classmen do not furnish free lunches, even to the members of a class who have "a good eleven, and are going to beat Yale...
...CRIMSON, though I think his way of wording his remarks is a little obscure. Harvard has made great strides in the last few years, and I am proud to be in it. There are however, some inequalities that still need to be remedied: I do not think the upperclassmen are quite kind enough in inviting freshmen to their rooms or taking freshmen into their society. It would make us feel better if a helping hand were stretched to us and we were invited to mingle more freely with the other fellows. I think also that now that invidious class distinctions...
...History 15 is arranged. There is an alternative in the courses for honors requiring either a course in Roman Law or History 15. Owing to the fact that the latter course is given on alternate years, it is available to juniors this year only. In consequence, the upperclassmen who wish to complete their course in Political Science, are either obliged to gain admission to History 15 or elect Roman Law. As the former is overcrowded, with thirty students, and as a number of men have been turned away, there must in many cases be a choice between Roman...
...wish to say a kindly word to the freshmen. There exists in Harvard a tendency, or peril which has been called indifference, scepticism and other names are equally indefinite. It shows itself mainly in a frozen demeanor among the upperclassmen toward each other as well as toward the freshmen. Freshmen not being accustomed to such strange ways of evincing affectionate feeling, are troubled by this coldness. We simply give them a word of comfort and warning. They must not be discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they...