Past Experience has Shown No Bad Results from the Scrimmage.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

The committee of the Corporation seem to have taken an interesting stand in relation to the Tree exercises on Class Day. Let us hope their decision is not past reconsideration.

Their observation that football paraphernalia gives offence to refined ladies is unique in its isolation. I presume to say there are few if any ladies, outside of the Corporation, who would absent themselves from the exercises on this account; and surely the display of femininity there in the past is evidence, perhaps overlooked by an introspective committee. The symptoms of disgust among the ladies is quite generally confined to those outside the enclosure where it is presumably not unseemly garments which give offence.

The objection that the occasion offers an acceptable opportunity for the settlement of past grievances is a matter difficult to determine, but doubtless the committee has obtained testimony on this point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant to act together in amity, dignity and fraternity on the occasion. Surely to respect such a covenant would not be a test too superhuman for Christian forbearance.

As the last objection I think the suggestion in your editorial of Saturday's issue furnishes a complete rejoinder, viz, that the members of the class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it can hardly be that that body intend to pronounce judgment on a difference of such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered by the sceptic who seeks to deny the fundamental laws of thought. I leave logicians to trace the analogy.

GRADUATE.