EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen. - It seems to me that a word should be said concerning those students, happily not many in number, who make themselves conspicious at prayers by reaching for hat and books as soon as the hymn is ended, and starting down the aisle before the benediction is half out of the minister's mouth. These things are a gross discourtesy to the great majority who, no matter what they may think about the advisability of morning prayers as now carried on, still feel they owe it to themselves to behave respectfully; - to say nothing of those who join in the service for deeper reasons. Those who make the disturbance seem to forget that Harvard's boast has always been that whatever her merits or demerits elsewhere, her undergraduates are gentlemen in more than mere externals.
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