EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In one of the Greek courses on Saturday Prof. White remarked, in explaining to the section the reasons that actuated the faculty in refusing the petition of the students in regard to the Thanksgiving recess, that he very much regretted that there was no way by which the faculty could acquaint the students with the reasons for their actions. He said that if the students could always get the authoritative announcements of the causes of the various actions of the ruling boards, he did not doubt that much better feeling would result between the students and the faculty.

This brings up again a question that has been often discussed in the columns of all college papers: Is there no way for the faculty to communicate officially to the students their wishes and opinions? In other colleges this is done, to a greater or less extent, by announcements made in chapel by the president or some other officer of the government. Is not some such a device possible here? If this does not seem the best way, the faculty could print official notices in the college papers, which would have the same effect. The meagre information we gain from the bulletin board is often very unsatisfactory. There is no doubt that the student would more readily acquiese in the decisions of the powers if he were treated like a reasonable being and given the causes that brought about these results. In no other college is there such a marked line of red tape between students and instructors as at Harvard. Some colleges have class officers, consisting of members of the faculty whose duty it is to arrange all matters between the two portions of the college community. But, here, everything is so bound about by red tape, and all the minor workings of the governing board are so carefully concealed, that the students are apt to come to the conclusion that the faculty often do things merely for the sake of exercising their authority. Surely some means can be adopted to prevent the growth of such a feeling. G.