EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-I am very glad to see by your issue of this morning that the students take the proper view of the disturbances in the yard. No one can doubt that the faculty have contributed directly to the result. On Saturday the drums were stopped, and that aroused a hostile spirit which was sure to find vent in some way or other. Then on Monday night, the absurd remarks of an instructor, which received a greeting that on other occasions would have been disgraceful, and the puerile attempts of another, whose long experience should have taught him better, to send the men to their rooms, aroused the indignation of the students and a bonfire was inevitable.
The chief delight of the students was in outwitting the proctors, and had those gentlemen shown a more reasonable spirit, the celebration would have done no harm and would have been over at an early hour. The fire on the grass by the library, which did so much injury, would not have been put there, except that its promoters were less likely to be caught in such a place. A bonfire is no crime, if it does no injury, and no one would attempt injury, unless detection means punishment. B.
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