TO EDITORS OF HARVARD CRIMSON:-It is an old custom of Harvard College that all her students march together in a presidential torchlight procession If this custom is to be kept up, after a vote of the college has been taken to ascertain in what procession she shall march, the minority should march with the majority; and to the outside world the college should appear to go rather for a spree than for any political significance; not only because such a purpose is more befitting the age of the students, but because then both parties could enter into the fun of the procession more zealously. As when a President of the U. S. is elected, both parties acknowledge he is their leader, so when the college chooses the procession she will march with, let every student join that procession. If they do not do so, the old custom will be broken; for then half the men will go in one procession and half in another, thereby losing all the fun,-like a fire-cracker broken in the middle, both ends of which are only good for a fizzle. We think therefore that the minority should go with the majority, and in the present case that the whole college should march in the Republican procession, or a good old custom will be practically done away with.

F., '86.