EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In my communication in your last issue, I spoke of the unjust or at least ineffective means taken to preserve order and quiet among us. I think I might have dwelt more on the pettiness of the proctor system as it now exists. Peace must be preserved in the college dormitories, it is true, and none desire it more than the students themselves. But they do protest when at every slight ebullition of mirth or casual congress of friends the proctor's knock is heard at the door. The proctors should remember that their office is not to quell disturbances annoying to themselves only, as much as it is to stop everything that may call forth reasonable complaints from anyone in the building. They should remember that if they have to put up with somewhat from their overhead or next-door neighbors, so have all occupants of the building. Complaints cannot be made of all of these annoyances; they are inseparable from a common domicile. Democracy is the rule of our dormitories. Surely our college authorities would not like to reduce our lives to the hum-drum monotony which their restrictions seem to necessitate. A proctor's visit would mean more if it came less often. These, as well as my former remarks, which I noticed were unsigned, come from

AN '87 MAN.