TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON : -

IN the March issue of the Register, page 138, an article entitled "College Life under President Kirkland," by the Rev. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, contains the following paragraph : -

"Nor do we believe the fashionable regattas wholly without peril to one's virtue, when it is sometimes hinted that 'liberal purses' are in prospect between students of Harvard and some of their competitors."

While it is the privilege of elderly graduates to give as many interesting facts about life at Harvard in the past as they please, it is certainly unfair for them to hint that the representatives of the University have ever competed for "liberal purses." It is a pity that a journal, even if "unofficial," of such prodigious circulation as the Register, should give any such impression to the world about our Athletic representatives who work faithfully for the University.

Mr. Muzzey may have heard the above dark hint from the same authority who furnished him with the information that "the walls of old Massachusetts, with the portraits of so many worthies as look down on the spectacle, contain enclosed for all time the gilded trophies of victory by the oar and ball."

1876.