EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There was an editorial in your columns some time since which severely criticised the action of some members of the freshman class who made a habit of leaving recitation rooms in the middle of the hour. There is another thing constantly occurring that ought to be criticised even more harshly, - I mean the practice some men have made of leaving Sanders in the midst of the lectures that are frequently delivered there. It must cause a speaker no little annoyance to see, before his lecture is half through, a score or more of men climb over the knees of five or six people and stalk out. If the offenders are freshmen, it is to be hoped that living a year or two in the atmosphere of gentlemen will enable them to discriminate between common courtesy and boorishness. But if any of the offenders are upperclassmen, there is only one thing to suggest. Since their native instruction and early breeding is so firmly rooted that the influence with which they have been surrounded during their life here has had no effect for good upon them, it would seem best for them to stay away from the lectures altogether, and thereby spare the lecturer annoyance and preserve the University's good name. For such action forces us to one of two conclusions: Either the knowledge of these men is too extended to permit their wasting an hour in listening to such men as are deemed fit to instruct us, ordinary mortals, or their brains are too feeble to stand the strain of absorbing so much at one time.

'89.