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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In response to your editorial relating to the Speakers' Club. I should like to explain the aims and present policy of that organization, both of which have evidently been misunderstood.

The Speakers' Club has never been intended as a rival of the Dramatic Club, as you seem to suggest, but was formed by men interested in various forms of platform speaking and oral expression. Some of the members are interested in debating, others along the lines of the Boylston Competition, others in dramatic interpretation with reference to good elocution and vocalization, while there are still others who simply want practice in expressing their thoughts before an audience with clearness and conciseness. The arrangements committee in outlining the work of the club has been forced to keep these various interests in mind and to plan accordingly. In order to give all men an opportunity to work along their particular lines of ability it has been decided among other things to present Rostand's "The Romancers," in Cambridge on the evening of April 3rd for the benefit of the Cambridge Hospital League. The Dramatic Club need not feel that it is losing possible material for its plays, since I question whether any of the men in the cast of "The Romancers" would have tried for Dramatic Club parts. Under such circumstances there can be no rivalry between the two clubs.

As to there being a place in the University for the Speakers' Club, we feel that we are doing a valuable work by endeavoring to arouse an interest in debating, public speaking and platform work in general, among a type of man whom the Debating Councils of recent years and other kindred organizations have been unable to reach. Any organization that can assist or strengthen the cause of public speaking and debating at Harvard deserves the co-operation and support of every member of the University. B. S. VAN RENSSELAER.