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To the Editors of the Crimson:

The honest intention of the Corporation in their recent action concerning partisan politics can not be questioned. But there are many who feel that a great mistake has been made and that the Corporation has needlessly excluded the best of party politics from the College life.

A party platform is the definition of the means by which a party hopes to perpetuate the welfare of the nation, and is founded on moral principles quite as important as those underlying the struggle for Civil Service Reform. The welfare of society has been at times considered the object of all government. It is the avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects of the age hope to perpetuate that welfare, there are some who feel considerable bitterness at his exclusion, and would like better explanations of that action than they have yet received.

A SENIOR.