To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Is not Class Day sufficiently strenuous without any Statue exercises? Early in the morning the Seniors go to Chapel. Hardly is this over when they are lined up on the march to Sanders Theatre. After the exercises there, which are pretty long, the spreads, club and private, are on. And in the evening there is dancing at Memorial and the Gymnasium. Is not this enough? Previously it has been the custom to cram in some Statue exercises, at which people made lots of noise, and go hot, and dusty, and covered, with confetti, but this year it seems necessary to give up these exercises on account of danger from fire. When we see something going, we always want to get something in its place--and so it is proposed now to have "exercises" in the Stadium. If Class Day was full before, it would be fuller now. The walk to and from the Stadium over in Allston would take sometime--which might be more pleasantly spent. Then if it happened to be hot, or windy, or muddy--as it easily might--this walk would be disagreeable. In any event, after walking that far, any further "exercises" ought to be good--certainly they ought to be more substantial than the Statue exercises of the past: to which there is so little that it is difficult to appreciate their beginning or their ending. But so far no very enticing program for this new departure has been proposed. "Dancing on the green" has been suggested:--as if people would feel like careering around on the grass when they knew that civilized dancing was going on at the various Spreads. There may be some to whom this "dancing on the green" will appeal, but it will not appeal to all--and general consent is needed to make this new Stadium plan a success.

Instead of trying to invent something to replace the Statue exercises, why not let them go without a substitute? The time thus freed will be much more pleasantly spent in the Yard, and at the various Spreads, and everyone will be cleaner, and cooler, and less weary. SENIOR.