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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It may seem "warmed over" to bring up Christmas now, but there has been a deficiency in last Christmas celebration which should be known so that it will not happen again.

Christmas time is one of good will and of generosity; one of rejoicing, of reunion. Happily, many of us, more than usual on account of the vacation, have gone home for the holiday. Those who live too far were invited in friendly families, parties were given them; on Christmas eve, about three hundred were at President Lowell's party, on Christmas evening, the Phillips Brooks House gave an entertainment, some kind people made a special point to invite the foreign students, churches and societies had Christmas parties for all young and old. In short there has been a chance for almost all to enjoy Christmas.

I have to say almost all because some of our fellow-students had no Christmas celebration: they were the patients at the Infirmary, and of all of us, they should have had it. They did not complain, nor did they shed tears about it, but still they perhaps think that it would have been nice if they had had their Christmas fun also. If would have cheered them up and made them forget their troubles for a while. We must see that hereafter they will not be omitted.

An investigation on this matter disclosed the fact that there is no fund for Christmas decorations at the infirmary. In former years this institution has depended on individual charity and on subscriptions from the patients: this is, as we see, unsuitable. We could, in the organize a committee to raise the money needed; this also is uncertain some year, one may foget attend to it. The best way, to my mind, is to endow the infirmary with a fund yielding an interest of fifteen or twenty dollars, which is an adequate sum to provide for wreaths, a tree, a few trimmings, and perhaps a few flowers.

It should not be difficult for a committee of ten collectors to gather four or five hundred dollars among the three thousand under graduates of the college. This fund could be deposited in a savings bank and the interest of it could be put in charge of the infirmary matron. It should be attended to now, so that Christmas of 1925 will be provided for.

To some of us a matter of fifteen or twenty dollars may not seem worth bothering about, but it may make all the difference between a good time and a dull time at Christmas for the Infirmary. Those who have been patients there know that its personnel makes the most of every opportunity to cheer up the boys, let us help them. Alex, Chalufaur '26.