TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON: -

WE have become accustomed to the inaccurate reports of our College matters in Boston papers, and have long since given up complaining about the "Harvard Gossip" furnished by the correspondent of the Saturday Evening Gazette; but when one reads, in the Transcript, an editorial devoted to proving that Harvard students are "social roughs," it is time that something was said in our defence.

The facts are these: On Friday evening, the 2d inst., a party of about forty Freshmen visited the Boston Museum to see Evangeline. The witticisms of that extravaganza are only too familiar to the minds of theatre-goers, and they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of '80. While going down stairs after the play, the Freshmen sang, but this could not have interfered with any one's enjoyment of the music or of the acting. In short, their behavior, although remarkably juvenile, was entirely harmless.

It is certainly a very Freshman-like custom, this buying seats for forty in the most prominent part of the house, this going to theatres en masse; and if a party of undergraduates, who have not enjoyed the experience of more than six months of college life, occupy conspicuous seats in a Boston theatre and display more hilarity than dignity in their deportment, is the Boston press going to correct their shortcomings by designating them as the "Harvard Mob"?

The Transcript quotes an incident of Soldene's performance at the Globe. Two ladies, we are informed, were obliged by the conduct of Harvard men to leave the house. It is safe to say, that if they were ladies the conduct of those on the stage would have driven them from their seats sooner than the behavior of students in the auditorium.

Whatever may have been done by Harvard men, either then or since then, it is only just that the editors of respectable Boston papers should examine both sides of the question before censuring college men in language that would ruin the reputation of a Donnybrook fair.

G.H.D.