[We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest. The CRIMSON is not, however, responsible for the sentiments expressed in such communications as may be printed.]

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

A good number of students in our college wish to open correspondence with American students and exchange the thought and knowledge they respectively have. Our students here have very little chance of getting any knowledge about America while in school, and they are exceedingly anxious to know what the New World is doing.

As probably most of you are aware, our city of Kagoshima is the place where were born great Saigo, Kido, and Okubo, who with others helped to create New Japan, and Togo, Oyama, Kuroki, Nogi, and many other heroes and statesmen who took active part in the late RussoJapanese War.

If any Harvard students are interested in Japan and care to correspond with our students, it will, I believe, not only be a source of great pleasure to both parties, but will also do them real good; and in the case of our students it will also give them a rare--if not the only opportunity of expressing their thought in earnest in a foreign tongue which they are now studying for seven or eight years.

Those desiring to open correspondence with our students may write to me in the first instance, and I will distribute their letters among them as much as possible according to the kind of interest shown in these letters.

This letter is written to you at the request of 31 of our students. By kindly publishing it in your paper you will greatly oblige them and Your Friend and College Brother,   NARIAKI KOZAKI, A. M., '92,   Professor of English.

The 7th College, Kagoshima, Japan, Feb. 10th, 1906.