EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-I am among the many who rejoice in the start that has been made against snobbery among us. But I hope that this question will not be confined to the comparatively limited extent of the snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class dinner uttered a real truth when he spoke of the increase of class feeling in the senior year. But to have to fight up to that year, through the snobbishness and condescendingness of men with whom he may be thrown in his work, is a pretty hard experience for any man.

Further, there are not a few cases of men who never succeed in winning their way into their class-mates good graces. (I do not here include the few men in every class who are truly worthy of contempt and disapproval.) These men may be naturally good and agreeable fellows, who come here without knowing anyone, repel those with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude of their rooms. Exactly such cases are comparatively rare, I know, because generally there will be some one to make friends with them. But why should we allow a state of things to exist at all, which infuses bitterness into the lives of many of our fellow-students? It need take no great sacrifice on our part to be genial and kind to worthy fellow-students, even if they are poor and of a rough exterior.

Let us hope that the revival which Harvard is undergoing this year-the life-current which is increasing her activity in athletics, in daily work, in religion-will soon sweep away this very considerable evil, and that we shall realize more fully what a duty and what a power lies in the bond which binds us together here as fellow-students and fellow-men.

K.