To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Wherever mortals and human institutions are found, do not expect perfection. The chronic fault-finder seldom considers this. Hence he is loud in his bellowing for reform.

Critics of Harvard are not exceptions. Rational beings appreciate that there is much room for improvement even at this great institution. If all the needs of the University could be satisfied, I suppose we could think of scores of suggestions.

If we are to let such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin my eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have seen instructors give up illustrating on the board, realizing the futility of their attempts to make the chalk write. Does such a state of affairs deserve comment?  J. VINCENT SPADEA '23 March 31, 1922