EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In your paper yesterday morning, X. Y. Z. urges that some plans be made for a celebration of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and suggests the method of the Boston Latin School last year as a good example. I think this idea of a reunion with addresses and eulogies is an excellent one and one that we might still have in conjunction with something else. But would not something of a jovial nature, in which the whole body of students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after the manner of the Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies and organizations of to-day were illustrated by their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified by the students, I really have forgotten. We have here in Harvard the men, plenty of music, and from last year, the experience for a big procession. Each society and organization would bend its energies to its own particular section and the whole would with a little guidance, take care of itself. A peculiarly Harvard procession, as such a one would be, would create a widespread interest, and would certainly furnish X. Y. Z. "something he could look back upon with pride and pleasure."

Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged.

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