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Communication

Objects to Forced Contributions.

(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:

I an sorry that the CRIMSON takes the tone it does in regard to the scrimmage between the Seniors and the Freshmen on the Library steps yesterday when the Freshmen were prevented from having their group photograph taken because they did not respond with the desired generosity to the Seniors' appeal. So long as this contribution to the Seniors' picnic was taken as a sort of joke and was made the occasion for a little banter and levity, no one could object much, though some of us have though the custom an innovation in very questionable taste.

But as soon as it comes to be resented by one party as something of an imposition, and to be depended upon by the other as a source of income to pay the expenses of their own pleasure trip it becomes discreditable to the College and particularly to the Seniors. That the Freshmen should in time come to dislike being put upon in this way is most natural, and I respect their independence. Harvard has been free for some years from these clashes between classes. Let us not permit them to get a start among us.

Let us drop this whole business. It has had its day as a joke and has outgrown that stage. It should now be a thing of the past. AN INTERESTED GRADUATE.

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