To the Editors of the Crimson:

In a communication to last Friday's CRIMSON it was justly urged that unless the conflict of dates between Class Day and the boat race can be prevented there will be a general feeling of dissatisfaction in the Senior class, shared in by the rest of the college.

This boat race will be the most interesting athletic event in which Harvard will have participated for several years past. A race with Cornell alone would be attended by a large contingent from every class; but the entrance of Yale into the contest lends it a double interest, so that it is safe to say that every Harvard man who can afford the expense would wish to go to Poughkeepsie this year.

If Class Day is celebrated on the same date each event will suffer. The success of Class Day, however, will be the most seriously endangered. The Seniors, of course, will stay in Cambridge, but large numbers of Juniors and lower classmen, whose presence here is highly desirable, will go to the race. The cheering of the classes at the Tree will be feeble, from lack of numbers; the preponderance of girls at the spreads and elsewhere will be appalling, and there may even be difficulty in securing Junior ushers.

Now is the time to settle the question. If the interest of Harvard demands the latest possible date for the race the only alternative is to change the date of Class Day.

It is rumored that the baseball game with Yale can changed to June 23. If this were done the Faculty probably would not object to having the Senior dance on the evening of the same day, as examinations, if necessary at all on that day, would be given in the morning.

In view of the importance of this question to every member of '97, would it not be well for the Class Day Committee to discover the wishes of the majority of the class through a meeting or by some other means?

ANOTHER SENIOR.