EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to bring into general prominence through the columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive use of a small class of men. The athletes in this respect are a privileged set; they claim the University colors as their distinctive mark, and the college at large, more by indifference than anything else, has supported them. It may be urged that the members of the various athletic organizations are entitled to a certain mark of distinction for their peculiar services to the college. This is allowable. No one who does not belong to a 'varsity team would care to wear a large H on his sweater or jersey, or distinctive red and black stripes around the band of his straw hat, but there are a large number of men who do declare that the so-called "'varsity blazer" should be worn by any Harvard man who cares to do so. If a man happens to be a manager of, or connected in some such way with, a 'varsity team, it is considered perfectly proper for him to appear in the regulation 'varsity blazer, while for his classmate who has not been so fortunate, it is termed "bad form" to do the same. Thus by a petty, illogical and totally inconsistent custom, undergraduates are practically compelled to wear blazers striped with their class colors. In the country during the summer months a man who wears his class color of yellow and black is invariably taken for a Princeton man, and quite naturally too; while donning green and white is supposed to prove conclusively that one hails from Dartmouth. As a result, the true Harvard colors are seldom seen, while those of Yale, Princeton and Columbia are everywhere flaunted before one's eyes. As one who has been here three years, I feel that the custom which now prevails here is entirely foreign to the liberal spirit of the place, contrary to the laws of common sense and opposed to the feelings of a large number of

UNDERGRADUATES.