EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -A few days ago, a communication in your columns called attention to the state and work of the "Total Abstinence League" at Harvard, and a few more words on the same subject will not be out of place. In a university of the size of Harvard there is necessarily more or less intemperance, and it is obvious that a body of men who band themselves together in the right way may exert a good influence on the whole student body, so far as this question is concerned. But has this association with its formidable name, and its imposing shingles pursued such a course as to bring forth good ? Has it held meetings of any recent date to set forth its views, and then endeavored to disseminate them ? Has it had the effect of abating in a single lot this evil which it is in existence to fight ? And in no single instance can we answer in the affirmative.

But on the contrary, instead of aiding the temperance cause, from its lack of energy and sincerity it has made its name a by-word and a source of ridicule throughout the college. Instead of striving to lesson the amount of intemperance, it has issued a number of shingles, and now, contented, it sits with folded hands and tearful eyes awaiting the regeneration of the students. If this is the method to be used to check intoxication, it may fairly be asked why on earth the society was ever started, for its mission seems to be only to foolishly await a better state of affairs without aiding it on in the least.

If such a society has any claim for existence it has a strong one ; and if the old society cannot gain enough energy to successfully prosecute its work, let a new one be formed that can. No society could have a better purpose and aim than such a one, but it must use every guard lest it strengthen rather than destroy the evil of drinking here by bringing ridicule upon itself.

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