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To the Editors of the Crimson:

A writer in the Graduates' Magazine for December deplores the undergraduate's ignorance of the "venerable associations" which cluster around the University. "How many of the students" he asks, "know when Hollis and Stoughton, and Holworthy were built, or what the men did for whom they were named? . . . How many can tell, off-hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollection of great men. . . . The associations, many of them priceless, are here; is it not worth while to cultivate the faculty which apprehends them?"

As the writer says, however, "Youth naturally looks forward and not back;" and he exclaims: "How little is done to cultivate the historical sense of the students!"

Would not a few evening lectures concerning those "venerable associations" be welcomed by the undergraduate, and greatly increase his affection and reverence for our Alma Mater.

SENIOR