To the Editors of the Crimson:

Some of the gentlemen who are opposed to the extension of Class Day over three days do not seem to appreciate the advantages which this arrangement offers to people coming from a distance, to see sons, or nephews or grand-sons graduate. The older folk generally want to stay for Commencement as well as Class Day and under the old regime they are obliged to fill the aching void between Friday and Wednesday as best they can. The three-day scheme, beginning of necessity on Friday, since the finals do not end till then, and lasting through Monday, offers a programme which can be enjoyed in gentlemanly leisure, yet which will comfortably fill the now empty space, leaving Baccalaureate Sunday and the Tuesday before Commencement as days of peaceful rumination for the old grads., and of re-cuperation for the youth of both sexes.

People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days?

The scheme proposed by the Class Day Committee suggested a ball game with Yale on Saturday afternoon. Would it not be pleasanter and more appropriate to have a game with a team of graduates? There could be no possible ground for ill-feeling, we should be very glad to see famous old players again, and they would doubtless come back on that day more joyfully than on any other. '97.