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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

At the risk of being thought an iconoclast in a community where traditions are all too few, the writer ventures a suggestion which may seem to many too radical for even a moment's consideration.

It is obvious that the first four lines of the first stanza of "Fair Harvard,"--written especially for Commencement--are not appropriate for many of the occasions on which we sing them. This is particularly noticeable after football games, when our "jubilees" have been of late few; nor do we surrender the College to future generations at the end of a pop concert in the Union.

The words of "Bright College Years" and Cornell's "Alma Mater," being applicable to no particular occasion, are applicable to any. It seems that some one could be found, who would re-write the first four lines of "Fair Harvard," giving us in their place lines that could be sung appropriately on all occasions; as it is, only for the Stadium exercises on Class Day, and for Commencement are the present words fitting. If Harvard men, graduates as well as undergraduates, would interest themselves, someone would produce words appropriate not only for these occasions, but for all others as well.

No one has a greater regard for the few traditions that are left us, than the writer, but we should not keep our ties with the past simply because they are ties. ROBERT WITHINGTON '06.