To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The hysterical editorial "On The Tribune" printed in your pages on February sixth would (to use your own words) be beneath comment if it were not for ideas and prejudices of which it is all too representative. The writer of the editorial is evidently a supersensitive young man and, like many supersensitive people, he is neither polite nor rational. In the first place he insuits a quite considerable body of Middlewestern Harvard men past and present. This we can forgive him on the score of what is, apparently, an over excitable adolescence. We are surprised, however, that even a Bostonian should have such highly romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type) of the numerous connections between Chicago families and the best of his own local deities. Admitting the magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians who have married Chicagoans, we think, nevertheless, that he should be informed. The McCormicks have had their reaper for a hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune" is a very, very vulgar paper indeed, although we suspect that some of his local journals rival it in this respect.

For this young man to take up arms for President Lowell is a gallant gesture. Yet he should be aware that the traditional gentleman is careful with whom he draws his sword. If he were, he would realize that this slashing of thin air in defence of President Lowell and with such an adversary as the Chicago Tribune is unseemly. Will not this last reproach suffice for any good Bostonian?

W. S. Gilmore. Jr.