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Communication.

Complaint Against Public Initiations.

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Five or six boys who I afterwards learned were Harvard undergraduates, though their manners belied that description, boarded an outward-bound Huron Avenue car at Harvard square on Wednesday evening of this week at about nine o'clock, and proceeded to put two of their number through a set of vulgar performances utterly unrelieved even by the originality or wit which is sometimes supposed to atone for such infringements of the ordinary rules of good breeding. I do not know to what club or fraternity these men belong, but if a better argument were lacking for doing away with public initiations by those clubs to which age or other virtues may have given a certain prestige, such imitations of their ways as I saw last night ought to make us give up the whole silly business. GRADUATE.

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