COMMUNICATION.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-The recent disturbances in the yard bring up the question as to whether the students are alone responsible. It has been maintained by many townsmen, and is the opinion of a large class of the men, that the faculty are directly responsible for much of the trouble. What is their attitude ? They say, "You shall not make a bonfire," and by a system of espionage, well calculated to arouse the opposition of the fellows, try to prevent any demonstrations. The result is a long and tedious delay to the inevitable celebrations. The proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise and disturbance continue till three o'clock, to the disgust and sleep-lessness of the townsmen.

Now, if the faculty would meet the men half-way, and say, you're bound to have your fun and we understand very well why, on such occasions, you want to have a good time. Now all we ask of you, is to have your good time as much as possible to yourselves; build your bonfires at a safe distance from the buildings; do no wanton destruction to property and, above all else, in consideration of the rights of the citizens, get through early. Let there be no noise after midnight.

If the faculty should show such a spirit the men would be ready to meet them more than half-way. The spirit of petty spying and taking names of men probably having little to do with the disturbance, and then the system of wholesale summons will never help towards that better feeling between the faculty and the men, which every man wishes for.

MEMBER OF '84.