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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I should like to express my strong disapproval of the implication in one or two recent editorials that the work of the Faculty instructors in the R. O. T. C. has not been of great value to the organization. Although I realize that in writing this to you I am laying myself open to the charge of having a personal grievance, I feel that my close association with the work of the Corps during the past two years makes it incumbent upon me to voice my dissent. No one who has followed the work as closely as I have can fail to realize in how great a measure its success is due to the untiring devotion of the volunteer instructors who have taken up the task which many of them would have been glad to avoid, and carried it forward with conspicuously good results. They have given unsparingly of their time and strength, and it is highly unfortunate that the group as a whole should be pilloried for the slight mistakes which one or two may have made. It is furthermore unjust to make the inference that the recent reorganization of the Corps is due to their incompetence. As a matter of fact, the change is chiefly one of administrative detail,--an attempt to centralize functions which it had previously been necessary for three or four persons to perform. There is no intention of eliminating the Faculty from the instructing staff even though we have been so fortunate as to secure a number of National Guard officers to augment our teaching force.

We shall still depend largely for the carrying out of the work in the class-room and in the field on our Faculty instructors; and the debt which the University owes these instructors is the greater because it is apparently unappreciated. C. C. LANE.