THE action of a member of the Faculty in preventing recently the Sophomore societies from performing parts of their usual initiation, calls for some comment, we think. It has been the custom of these societies for years to shout out in the Delta the names of the first ten elected from the Freshman class, and then, forming in procession, to march through the Yard singing. That the singing is not as rich in harmony as it is in volume is a lamentable fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were badly shattered. There is little enough at Harvard to venerate, and that little should be carefully preserved. Such customs, though perhaps barbaric relics of the past, are deserving of some respect; and to interfere with them when they occur so seldom, and disturb the comfort of so few, seems to us wholly unnecessary.
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