To the Editors of the Crimson:

The articles recently published in the columns of the CRIMSON have been, to my mind, somewhat misleading, and I should like to call attention to a few facts, in which the writers seem to have been mistaken.

The statement made that the hall is losing its popularity is easily disproved by the large waiting list of over 600. The large amount of "extra orders" has been brought forward in complaint. A large part of the extras comes from guests the student brings with him, and another large item comes from the "watch table" where students after the usual breakfast hour order from the extra list only. Aside from these two classes of orders almost all the extras appear to be for ices, sweets and other delicacies not to be expected for $4.00 per week.

It seems to me that the trouble is more in the service and cooking than in the quality of the food purchased by the steward. When one considers that the kitchen built for 600 must accommodate 1120 he can easily see that the difficulty lies elsewhere than with the steward.

Another writer has claimed that one can get a better meal at Foxcroft for 15 or 20 cents than is is served at Memorial. The lunch served today at Memorial costs, by the Foxcroft bill of fare, exactly 40 cents; the Memorial man being limited by his appetite alone, the Foxcroft man by the size of the orders placed before him. The new directors, I believe, should seek to find some solution to the overcrowding, rather than to place the whole trouble on the shoulders of the steward.

GRADUATE.