"On February 4 the editors of the HARVARD CRIMSON announced that they would soon issue an 'alumni weekly.' The editors have since learned that three years ago a fully-attended and representative body of the alumni, presided over by Phillips Brooks, discussed the relative merits of a weekly, monthly and quarterly, and decided that for the object to be attained the last was to be preferred. The editors of the CRIMSON have further learned that the Graduates' Magazine, representing a great outlay of money and energy by Harvard men, has not yet reached the point where it can safely meet the loss of any considerable number of subscriptions.

"While it is acknowledged that a field exists for an 'alumni weekly,' which the CRIMSON is in a position to cultivate successfully, the editors of the CRIMSON now feel that such success might be gained at the expense of the Graduates' Magazine, which is doing for the University a great service which such a publication probably could not do. They have therefore unanimously voted not to publish the proposed weekly. As this publication was of evident advantage to them as editors of the CRIMSON, we desire to state the cause of this withdrawal, and we believe that all graduates will agree that they have acted generously with a view to the welfare of the University as a whole.

CHARLES F. ADAMS,WILLIAM LAWRENCE,HENRY LEE,ROGER WOLCOTT,WM. E. RUSSELL,FREDERICK W. THAYER,MORRIS H. MORGAN,JUSTIN WINSOR,L. B. R. BRIGGS,RICHARD COBB.February 18, 1895."