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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Since the choice of Sunday as the day for the regimental hikes has been criticised, should not a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" lead us to declare the causes which have led to this choice?

Your leading editorial of Friday last hardly does justice either to your own views, or to those of the member of the regimental committee whose chance remark was there started on a public career. Whatever we think of the special tenets of the Lord's Day League, we do not wish as Harvard men to record ourselves as disdainful of the convictions of others, more particularly of their religious convictions. Is it not the fact that Sunday afternoon is the only available time for these essential parts of the training of the regiment; and that many members of the regiment would prefer some other day if it could be found?

Not many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment to the public by appearing to ignore it, still less by appearing to ridicule it. We have better reasons; and, I trust, better manners.  W. E. HOCKING '01