The letter which appears in the CRIMSON this morning for the second time, urging students to refrain from taking part in any disturbance at the opening of the college year, should appeal to the good sense of every Harvard man. We have no sympathy with those who look upon Bloody Monday as a sacred institution and the Faculty in their opposition to it as a body of ruthless iconoclasts. Such a view, for one thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time-honored. Let us put this one aside,- at least the childish part of it, as we have done with the countless schoolboy pranks of the old college days. Above all, let it not be said that Harvard men are influenced by that most childish of motives, resistance to authority, which in all our other relations with the Faculty died a peaceful death long ago.