TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON: -

IF mathematics have transformed the Freshman year into a vast desert strewed with the horrid skeletons of those who have fallen by the way, there is still one bright little oasis, - classical lectures. There is, however, no need of the contrast to render these lectures so pleasant.

Prof. Everett by his eloquence and intense enthusiasm makes the past live again, and we are irresistibly carried along with him, listening with attention, only equalled by the lecturer's earnestness, to the story of Nisus and Euryaius, or enjoying the quaint humor of Aristophanes.

Not only in themselves have the lectures been intensely interesting, but they have acted as a great stimulus to Latin and Greek, filling up the gaps of time and space, and making the study a connected whole.

These lectures, in after years, will always be one of the most agreeable features of our college course; and I feel sure that one is speaking for the entire class, in expressing deep regret at Mr. Everett's departure; alike for the loss of so agreeable a man, so profound a scholar, and so captivating a lectures.

'80.