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To the Editors of the Crimson:

A permanent memorial to Frank Bolles will be a beautiful tribute to a beautiful spirit that worked among us like a right hand without the left hand's knowing its action.

The foundation of a Bolles Scholarship, however, would seem to anyone who knew the specific nature of Mr. Bolles's interest in moneyless students, emphatically inappropriate. Scholarships (without entering the vexatious question of their use and abuse) undoubtedly stand as prizes, open to a certain class of fellows previously trained to enter a competition as definite in its rules and qualifications as those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest at all. The poor man cannot train for a scholarship and earn his living at the same time. Yet this same poor fellow, Mr. Bolles recognized, often brought to the University that pluck, all round activity, and tenacity of faith that we needed together with our spirit of acquisition and sense of culture. The meagre addition of a scholarship to the already large list, regarded as prizes, would be a kind of cold irony upon Mr. Bolles's love of seeing the unequipped fellow grow braver with his sympathy, rich in appreciation of the University's highest gifts, and quick in every form of service.

And so, if Mr. Bolles's work for the "poor man" is to be memorialized, it seems natural that some permanent means of encouragement be established for just the kind of men whom Mr. Bolles delighted to honor.

One can point to many things in the University, that are the fittest memorials, the outcome of his personal work for the men whom it is proposed to benefit further in his memory. He had a large reward of gratitude for his part in many schemes and institutions for making cheap, pleasant living in Cambridge possible to students.

A fit memorial to Frank Bolles in the interest of the poor man will be remote from any system of competitive prizes; it will be something capable of enlargement by the enlistment of student pluck and cooperation; it will be instinct with charity and a simple, firm reproof of the spirit of mendicancy.

GRADUATE FRIEND.