Editors Daily Crimson:

Will you allow me to express my regret at the action of the mass meeting on Tuesday night? Such vacillation proves how little public opinion at Harvard is worth. As matters now stand the undergraduates say to any rowdy or ldiot who may happen to think that daubing red paint is funny: "Have your joke if you must; we will pass resolutions of indignation-but don't let those frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When public opinion is thus spineless as a caterpillar on so important a matter, it is no wonder that langour and indifferance are to record in athletics. No doubt it would be disagreeable for a college "man" to inform the authorities against one of his class; but this is not a question of personal pleasure, it is a question of duty. You undergraduates hold in trust the buildings and material which generations of benefactors have bequeathed for your use; but you are responsible to the classes which will come after you for the preservation of this trust. It is not yours to paint or to destroy; it is yours only for a time. And plainly enough it is your duty to prevent any one from injuring it. Evidently you cannot fulfill your obligations so long as you say to the depredators: "We are very, very indignant; but we are all brothers, and perhaps you were intoxicated; so we'll pay the damages and screen you."

GRADUATE.