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Communication.

We invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

In the assignment of commencement parts several months ago it was very noticeable to those interested that no Scientific School student was on the list though the scholarship of several members of the graduating class in the Scientific School, as measured by the college standard, was sufficiently high. As no list of commencement parts has since been published, the '94 men of the Scientific School are denied the chance of competing for the coveted honor of taking part in the exercises on commencement day. This is an evident injustice and in direct opposition to the true Harvard spirit. The student in the Scientific School differs in only two respects from the student in the college: he has less requirements for entrance and his work is chiefly prescribed. These differences, in the opinion of the faculty, may make him unfit to compete with the college student, but they are certainly not great enough to be the basis for denying him representation when he graduates. The fourth year student in the Scientific School with his fellow student, the senior in the college, elects the class officers and the participants in the programme on class day; but he also should ask, no, demand, recognition from the faculty on commencement day.

SCIENTIFIC, '94.

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