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Communication.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In reply to the charges made by your correspondent of yesterday, the photographic committee desire to make the following statements:-

A careful reading of the communication will show the utter lack of facts by which such charges ought to be sustained. In the first place complaint is made because the sittings were given hurriedly. It will be remembered that by the contract all sittings were to be finished by the first of March. Notices to this effect frequently appeared in this paper long before the above date. Personal appeals were made for early sitting; appointments were made by members of the committee and by the photographer; and appointments for sittings were given both at the Cambridge studio and at the Boston studio. Besides these efforts to accommodate their classmates, the committee required the attendance of Mr. James Notman at the Cambridge studio on two stated days in every week. We do not see, therefore, why the photographer or the committee should be blamed for the rush which took place during the days immediately preceding the 1st of March.

Secondly, the work is said to be of inferior quality. In the opinion of the committee this is false. If the proofs were unsatisfactory, other sittings could have been arranged until satisfactory proofs were obtained.

Third, the charge that the work is sub-let is absolutely false. The entire work is done at the Boston studio, where the facilities are excellent for developing the negatives. The work is done by Mr. Notman's regular operators and receives equal attention with the rest of his work. It would seem, therefore, that the charges made by your correspondent are unjust and unfounded on fact. He states that his information comes from "good authority." We challenge him to produce this good authority, for charges of this kind should not be made unless substantiated by something more than vague rumor.

D. E. WHITE,M. C. HOBBS,A. G. WEBSTER,Committee.

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