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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:--

If the old saw, "In union there is strength," be true, let the Union show its strength by standing on its own legs.

The Union was built as an experiment. The democracy of the project sounded good to a college accused of snobbishness, and for years now this fanciful democratic spirit has hypnotized the minds of men who should have seen and known. The Union has not attained the goal for which it was begun; the Union is a failure; and in order to revive the dying institution, compulsory membership is urged.

Compulsory membership will not prevent the Union's death; it will merely delay it. From the attitude which undergraduates have held toward the Union, all can see that the Union with its glorious ideals of democracy is doomed.

Compulsory membership is preposterous. If a minority of the college members use the Union, then a majority of them do not. Compulsory membership, therefore, will wrong the majority. Compulsory membership will set up a dangerous precedent. No one has appeared before the Student Council to point this out, for no one greatly cares what, if anything, is done by the Student Council; but everyone knows that if compulsory membership is introduced in a social club like the Union, we shall soon be taxed for the support of the Goodies' Aggregation, the Janitors' Junto, and the Harvard Square Business Thieves' League. Furthermore, now is a particularly unwise time for such a move. Tuitions are being raised and allowances lowered. Down with compulsion!

The Union, they say, is democratic--"ruled by the people," according to etymology. Then let the Union be democratic, without the tyrannical and undemocratic method of compulsion. A SENIOR.