EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In last Saturday's CRIMSON appeared a very vicious and wholly uncalled for attack upon the instructor in English 12. The writer complains because the criticisms on his themes are pithy and to the point-because the instructor gives his real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing such a malicious and maligning tirade against a conscientious and able instructor. '89.