EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Though sharing in the indignation of your correspondent of Thursday's issue, at the despicable meanness of the article in Monday's Herald, yet I think there is quite a substance of truth in some of the latter's statements.

Last November I had the curiosity to study into this subject of the scholarships, and I regret to say that it is true that several men who have taken scholarships this year, ought not to have received them.

"But," you say "what do you know of their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need.

And I have noticed that such men, in most cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible and dishonest, to his face.

Yet how is this evil to be remedied? If a man has the face to lie to the Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least.

Another thing: I think there is injustice done in the present mode of awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything at all.

What I would suggest is, that the assignments be made on a general list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help.

Next year, I suppose, there will be more scholarships assigned than heretofore; but that does not alter the necessity of extreme care in their distribution. Pecuniary aid is intended for "meritorious students in needy circumstances"; let the man who keeps expensive apartments or spends money freely on clubs, sports, etc., ask himself conscientiously if he deserves such aid, when some of his classmates whose records entitle them to it, have to scrape along on a sum perhaps half as large as that he spends.

K.