(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your pointed editorials on the Harvard Union should arouse the self-sacrificing interest of all members and friends of Harvard University. In the entire University there is not a department more important then the Harvard Union to be recognized and sustained as the great social centre of the University.

To cultivate among every one of its members the esprit de corps of the University as also to encourage genuine social democracy should be a primal en- deavor of the Faculty and graduates as well as the students. These two constitute the raison d'etre of the Harvard Union and should be so recognized by everyone. Were this the case every member of the University would become an enthusiastic member of the Union and its permanent success would be assured.

Those of us who are familiar with the Oxford University Union and have seen the every-day cordial interchanges and friendly greetings between members of the faculty (from Presidents to Dons) and students of every nation and station, cannot help contrasting all that with the conditions extant at out Harvard Union --to say nothing of the thronged assemblies at the Forums which are next to the social centre idea, a main feature of the Oxford Union.

Not the lack of money, but the lack of general interest and co-operation is the cause of our failure. Millions of dollars will not avail unless all members of the University, led by the Faculty, join enthusiastically to make the Union a genuinely fraternal and democratic social centre.

The officers hereafter should print under the words "The Harvard Union" the explanatory words "Social Centre of the University." With its main object thus declared there should be vigorous and persistent efforts made to secure the active co-operation of every member of the University and of every resident graduate in Cambridge for all the years to come.  MARTIN KELLOGG SCHERMERHORN.