The communication which appears in another column is printed solely as an example of one style of writing which we shall in future refuse to accept. The communication column of the CRIMSON is not intended as a place in which any member of the University may feel at liberty publicly to insult the paper, or to air any and every fancied grievance against it. A certain amount of calm criticism of our own attitude we have never refused to publish; but extravagances like those of our present correspondent we shall hereafter receive in the personal spirit in which they are written. Today we have been obliged to omit a part of the communication, which is devoted to an exaggerated estimate of the material advantages to be derived by a student waiter.

It is perhaps of the nature of a divinity student to be aggressively on the watch for contempt of those who are not wealthy, at the same time that he evidently regards supreme contempt for those who are, as of itself a virtue; but in bringing the question of contempt into the discussion of the student waiter system, our correspondent raises a false issue. We do not urge that a student should not wait in Memorial because he thereby renders himself contemptible The simple fact of the case is that in the world today the various forms of what may be called body service have come to be the mark of social inferiority. The proposition is now made that this distinction be entirely ignored: that men receive as a matter of course from equals, the services which in the nature of things suggest inferiority.

The natural aversion to this unnatural situation has in it no element of contempt; it is rather the respect felt for equals which makes it offensive to see them assuming duties which are universally recognized as belonging to inferiors. And again, it is respect for men as equals which compels reluctance to put them in a position where it would be hard for them to preserve to the full their own sense of equality. Contempt has no place in the protest against student waiters, nor can it be read into that protest by any but the over-sensitive.