TO THE EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Another article on student government appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. The idea that the students were to be made to do police duty was ridiculed. But any committee elected to maintain order in the yard must, if they act officially, do police duty; and police duty is very unpopular at Harvard College. If they act unofficially or not at all, there is no use in electing a committee. And yet, however great confidence the faculty may have in us, and I sincerely hope we deserve it, it is still necessary, if we undertake student government, to have some definite and practical method of working. The faculty may disregard the "how," but with us it is half the question.

Our moral courage has been attacked. If the attack is justifiable, it seems strange that the faculty should have made a unanimous bona-fide declaration of trust in us. As to our complaint of officiousness, this is a free country If anybody without due authority from the United States, the state, the city, the faculty, or the students, assumes the right to control us, I think that to most people he would seem officious. And now I will try to answer the last charge against us, - that we are afraid of responsibility.

First, it is better to err on the side of caution than on the side of rashness. Secondly, there is no urgent need of an immediate acceptance of this responsibility. Thirdly, it is a question deserving far more consideration than we can give in the teeth of examinations. Moreover, our time is not money, and we can afford to wait. After the summer vacation, by all means let something be done, but not till then.

In conclusion, I may say I have the deepest respect for the gentleman with whom I have the honor to differ. But I also respect my classmates too much to hear them accused in silence.

G. H.