[We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest.]

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The recent action of the Student Council in giving its support to raising funds among members of Harvard University for a swimming pool, to be placed in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., has caused not a little comment. It is evidently the feeling among some men, that, inasmuch as we ourselves lack a swimming pool, our efforts might much better be directed toward securing a pool for Harvard.

In answer to this opinion it may be said in the first place that any effort within the University, toward securing a swimming pool for Cambridge is not likely to work any harm to the prospects of a pool for Harvard. In fact the reaction resulting from such an effort, is almost sure to count in our favor. A Harvard swimming pool will come with a new gymnasium. And such a building will probably come not from undergraduates but from graduates. Now by planning a Harvard swimming pool in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Harvard is going to stir up among graduates, interest and support in a new gymnasium for Harvard. This reactive result is not a mere supposition; it is a force which has shown itself in many enterprises.

On the other hand, if the feeling that "charity begins at home," is so strongly intrenched as not to be displaced, then, now is the time for the Student Council to "call the bluff" and to start a subscription fund for a Harvard swimming pool for Harvard. SENIOR.