TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-

AS the facts in connection with the recent resignation of two members of the Glee Club seem to be variously understood here in College, it may not be out of place to state them definitely and unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette" and the Glee Club, and two first tenors, who belonged to both organizations, severed their connection with the Glee Club, and after resisting several entreaties to reconsider their action, consented to return only on the condition that the two gentlemen whom the members of the "Quartette" regarded as the prime movers in this affair should resign. The Glee Club, recognizing, by this time, the impolitic step which had been taken in calling public attention to the "Harvard Arion Quartette," and feeling the imperative need of first tenors, avoided further collision by letting the blame of this action rest on two individuals, and by voting that it would be expedient for them to resign.

The management of a Glee Club, like that of a University Crew, involves such delicate diplomacy that no one ought to be greatly surprised by this action, though few, it is to be hoped, will attempt to justify it. But the authoritative position assumed by those members of the "Quartette" above alluded to, betrays, to say the least, an ungenerous disposition.

Granting that the "Harvard Arion Quartette," or the "Arion Quartette of Harvard Students," did not travel through New England on the productive capital of the name of Harvard; granting that it was a mistake to call attention to this rival society; and granting that your paper was unjust in censuring them, - concessions which not every one will be ready to grant, - it must still be conceded that there is something questionable in the conduct of men who, having the balance of power in their hands, insist on the resignation of two members - to them personally unpopular - because one was once an editor of a college paper, the other the leader of the Glee Club.

D.