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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

As chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, I wish to say a few words through your columns to the class of 1909. Several times the last day for receiving applications has been put off, that men who had been delayed might go to the dance; and yet I understand that up to the present date only 120 men have signified their intention of going. Last year at this time over 200 men had applied.

What is the reason for this falling off? Everyone who goes always has a good time. So it must be either that the Juniors do not want the dance or else are too lazy to go. If the former is true, they should have expressed their opinion before the dance was finally decided on. But apparently everyone thought it was a good thing for the class, but as individuals do not now care to go. Do these men realize that a class is judged by its works and that if the dance is a failure, the class will be held to blame?

Class spirit in Cambridge is not any too high. But it seems hardly possible that the Junior class is so far behind the three preceeding classes, that they cannot make the most important event of their Junior year, and the only social event which the class as a whole participates in, as much of a success as 1906, 1907, and 1908 have done. J. S. WHITNEY '08.