Communication

To the Editors of the Crimson:

As one who works in the Elective Office, I feel that I ought to say something to justify the position of the workers in University Hall.

The students in the College have all summer in which to formulate plans for the coming year. They file a list of courses in May, proceeding the opening of College. The wise ones send in by mail their list of changes of these courses, as well as changes of concentration and distribution in the summer time, when the office is running on a normal schedule. No one can expect perfect service and accurate answers to the questions of hundreds of men, who pile in on the three or four days around September 27.

Many questions are entirely foolish and unnecessary. Many can easily be answered by the student himself, if he would take the trouble to think and plan for himself, with the judicious use of the many pamphlets printed for that purpose.

Instead, he thinks it is much easier to be mentally nursed through four years at Harvard, by the continual advice of the members of the administration building. HERMAN E. WIENER '20. October 1, 1920.