(The Crimson Invites all men in the university to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

President Meiklejohn of Amherst has defined a university as an institution "where men may spend four years in the Companionship of dreamers." That is a splendid conception of a college, for it implies close association between faculty and students, which is now the greatest lack at Harvard as well as at other universities.

In the two years during which I have attended college, both here and in the West, I have only once had the good fortune to find a professor who seemed able to take the time to discuss with me my college course in its entirety, above all, in its relation to the profession or vocation I may choose after graduation.

I do not believe that I am unique in this experience. The advisory system of the American university is inadequate to the needs of its students. The qualifications of the adviser should be more than mere knowledge of the curriculum, of distribution and concentration. They should include understanding of men and broad human sympathy. The adviser should be a fired as well as a councillor. The influence of such a man upon a boy who is entering college, often uncertain of his alms and objects, is inestimable.

Is it not possible to evolve a more satisfactory advisory system at Harvard? Certainly the matter is at least worthy of consideration. ROBERT WORMSER UNC