(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 Editor of the CRIMSON:

May I take this means of bringing what I consider a most vital matter of University policy before the proper authorities and the student body?

If any member of the University will stroll over to Memorial Hall during any of these long June days at a meal hour and will took carefully over to the right as he enters the dining hall he will see an aged colored man moving slowly and faithfully about his work.

He may speculate on the old fellow's probable age and wonder vaguely why the University hasn't pensioned him long since. But he will not concern himself further. Most of us look with questioned approval on University business methods, but we all place implicit trust in the sense of justice of the authorities of a place like Harvard. And so the passing Harvard man will take it for granted that what is, is right, and the old man should be there working as he is day after day.

He will not know that that old man is over seventy years of age and that for forty-seven years, winter in and winter out, he has been doing his humble but faithful service to succeeding generations of Harvard men. That in his time he has waited on Lyman Abbott and Albert Bushnell Hart, and many others who years since have become national and even international figures. He will not know that that old colored gentleman has given his entire adult life to the service of Harvard University.

But he has. And while the boys of seventeen and twenty he will wait upon later in the morning are still asleep, the old man of seventy trudges daily to his work.

Harvard University has never pensioned a waiter. And so this old fellow seems doomed to have to go on working, working until he some day drops dead in the dining hall. For he is dependent up on the few dollars he receives as his weekly wages.

Here is a matter for the Student Council. If University policy forbids such a pension let us change University policy. The old man would welcome such a pension and the chance to spend his last few years in the rest and quiet it would give him. This is a matter which appeals so strongly to the sense of decency and justice that I believe publicity is all it needs to bring about proper action.

There is talk about "dangerous precedents" and "If you give it to one you must give it to all". And what if it does set a precedent? How many men have served Harvard as faithfully as this aged old veteran. It is a poor sort of Veritas that denies Justitia. DANIET, ROCHFORD 1L