Contrary to custom the Senior Board of the CRIMSON has not this year retired at the mid-year election and left the reins of government to the Juniors, but will remain in charge until graduation. This step is due in part to the feeling that perhaps the paper could fill its place more effectively if the precedent were established of leaving it longer in the hands of its most efficient editors, and in part to the fact that the Board in general are of the opinion that there is really no practical reason why the Seniors should retire. Having undertaken the work of the paper it is felt that if best suited to continue it they should do so.

The custom of Seniors retiring at the mid-years is not, however, peculiar to the CRIMSON. In most Harvard organizations there is the tendency, and it might be said to be almost a tradition, that the Senior during his last half year is a privileged character to be let down as easily as possible. But a few months and his college life will be a thing of the past; therefore he should take things as easily as possible while he can.

If tradition this is, it is high time to explode it. The College trusts to her Seniors, as the most experienced of her undergraduates, to form her policy. It is not logical that when best fitted to carry out that policy they should allow their responsibility to slacken, and permit mistakes to be made simply because they feel it their privilege to loaf.