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To the Editors of the Crimson:

An editorial in Saturday morning's CRIMSON expresses the hope "that the challenge which the Freshman Debating Club has sent to Yale will not be accepted." However perfectly I may agree with the reasons brought forward in support of this position, I must say that the proper time for such an editorial seems to me to have long since passed. Especially is this true in view of recent articles in the CRIMSON where approval of such a challenge, if not definitely expressed, was at least pretty clearly implied. So far as I have been able to find out, it was in those very articles that the idea of an intercollegiate freshman debate originated, and it now seems rather severe on the Debating Club to arraign them for an action for which the CRIMSON, by its influence, is itself partially, if not wholly responsible.

While there was still a chance of defeating the measure, nobody opposed, it more vigorously than myself. Now, however, that the harm is done, I should think it would be wiser to accept the inevitable and to encourage, as far as possible, the club on whom there may shortly devolve the duty of maintaining the prestige of the University.

NINETY-EIGHT.