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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

This letter is addressed through the CRIMSON, to those commuting students who are indifferent to the proposal to form an organization of commuting students. We wish to bring these students who do not realize the benefits of such an organization, or who have resigned themselves to their present dormant state to our point of view. The necessity of providing for all commuting students an organization which will give to them those advantages that the House System has given resident students is a vital one.

We do not expect to reach the scale of proficiency that the House System has attained. Nevertheless, the organization we propose would equate the two factions--resident and non-resident--more equally.

There is no doubt that a college education should provide students with more than what may be acquired from a "correspondence course." The commuter at Harvard has no opportunity to contact the University itself by making those cultural, intellectual, and athletic associations which should form an integral part of his four years at the University.

The Harvard Commuters' Association will provide a center for these important activities. Without an association of this sort, non-resident students will not procure these advantages. Such objectives, seeming superfluous to some, are necessary--vitally so.

The inert non-resident students must soon realize it; put his shoulder to the wheel and help establish this, now tentative, organization. Its benefits are incalculable, and its resulting opportunities and advantages are worthy of every effort and sacrifice.

"Aidez-vous et le ciel vous aldera." Kenneth T. Bird '38.