Communication.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

The recent conduct of certain members of the Freshman football team calls for more than passing comment.

That these men should so far forget their class and the University at large, fills us with surprise, and disgust. At a time when the united efforts of the members of the three upper classes, the enthusiasm of the coachers, and the hearty support of the graduates, promised to bring back to Harvard her old supremacy in athletics, this disgraceful action can not be too severely condemned. For those persons to have thus sacrificed their own interests was disreputable enought, but that they should have so grossly neglected their duty to the other members of the team, and the coachers, brings them beneath contempt.

Harvard has never countenanced such actions in the past, and we trust that the treatment accorded these men by their classmates and all others interested in the welfare of the University will be such as to render such conduct impossible in the future.

We sincerely sympathize with the more sportsmanlike members of the team, and we feel sure that we voice the sentiments of every true Harvard man in assuring the class of 1900 our most earnest support in the coming contest in which it is to uphold the honor of Harvard.

E. N. WRIGHTINGTON, JAMES DEAN, W. H. VINCENT, R. H. STEVENSON, D. M. GOODRICH, MALCOLM DONALD.