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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I read with some surprise your editorial in Monday's issue concerning our Canadian relatives. You expressed some little astonishment that there were but three Canadians now in college, and compared their number with the number of Californians now here. You might better compare their number with the number of Englishmen at Harvard, or with the number of Americans now at Oxford or Cambridge. In the first place, Canada is not as rich a country as, - say California, and the mere fact that her territory adjoins the United States, is no reason why she should contribute a large number of students to our colleges. Canada is a foreign country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada and the United States, but between England and France. The French portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States," and send their boys when they can afford it, to the great English universities. I think if the number of Canadians on the rolls at Cambridge and Oxford were noted, they would be found to equal fully the number of Californians in Harvard. Time, the great destroyer of prejudice alone, can turn our Canadian brothers to our colleges, which meanwhile we must make as liberal and attractive for them as possible.
ST. ANTOINE.
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