To the Editors of the Crimson:

The enthusiasm which the students have shown this autumn over the University Club project is the best augury that Harvard will have, before long, a social centre. The committee of graduates who two years ago broached the subject, succeeded in bringing it before a great number of the alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home to all the graduates. It occurs to me that this can best be done by the students themselves. If a majority of the 3000 men in Cambridge on going to their homes during the Christmas recess tell their friends and any Harvard graduates they know just what is wanted, they will do a better missionary work for the University Club than could be done by many circulars. Personal explanation is, in such causes, far more effective than printer's ink.

I enclose a list of the committee formed two years ago.

WILLIAM R. THAYER.8 Berkeley street, Oct. 31.

Charles Francis Adams '56, chairman; Wm. R. Thayer '81, secretary; H. L. Higginson ('55), G. G. Crocker '64, J. B. Ames '68, W. A. Burnham '74, Augustus Hemenway '75, H. E. Warner '82, T. C. Thacher '82, J. J. Storrow '85, of Boston and Cambridge; George Blagden '56, J. J. Higginson '57, J. H. Robb ('66), A. G. Fox '69, Lawrence Godkin '81, C. D. Dickey, Jr., '82, A. T. French '85, of New York; J. F. Jackson '73, of Fall River; M. S. Greenough '68, of Cleveland, O.; E. W. Frost '84, and W. K. Flint '91, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. John Green '55, and C. R. Sanger '81, of St. Louis, Mo.; A. L. Mills '81, of Portland, Ore.