EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-There is a different view of the demonstrations on Saturday and Monday night from that taken by two of your correspondents of yesterday. It is well known that the relations between the college and the citizens of Cambridge are not of the best. That the college property is not taxed is felt by the townsmen to be an injustice and a burden upon themselves. In case of a fire in one of the college buildings, the Cambridge fire department, supported by the citizens of Cambridge, would have to be called out. Demagogues would eagerly seize this opportunity to grumble, as they do every other. Bonfires, it must be remembered, are extremely dangerous. On Saturday evening a firebrand was thrown into the cellar of Stoughton, and might easily have set the building on fire. On Monday evening there was an enormous fire within a few feet of the library. At one time Gore ball was enveloped in smoke. Should that building be burnt, the college would suffer an irreparable loss. If we must have the traditional bonfire, let it be on Jarvis field, or in some spot where no danger to any property can be apprehended. But why the faculty should forbid the brass band to lead a procession through the yard, or the Glee Club to sing, it is difficult to comprehend. The explanation possibly is that the proctors, like the students, carried their programme further than was originally intended. The students built several bonfires because they were disturbed at the first one. The proctors, in order to prevent dangerous fires, ordered the students to go to their rooms and would allow no rejoicing whatever. If the

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faculty had set forth the reasons of its objections to celebrations carried to the extreme, no doubt moderation would have been used by the students. Let us hope that the faculty will impose no restrictive regulations which are not absolutely necessary; that the students, on their part, will cheerfully submit to such restrictions on their enthusiastic celebrations as the safety of property and the rights of Cambridge people demand.