Communications

To the Editors of the Crimson:

While I hesitate to use the knowledge which I have in regard to the case of the young man who was referred to in yesterday's CRIMSON as having left College on account of ill health, yet I feel that, in justice to the correspondents of the Boston newspapers, I should make a slight explanation. The gentleman who wrote the communication yesterday was greatly mistaken when he thought the unfortunate student in question ate sufficient food. Among the waiters at Randall Hall it was often remarked that this student ate the least of any man in the Hall, and that means that his diet was absurdly light and insufficient.

To my positive knowledge, he was unwell last Sunday, and feared there was a conspiracy to expel him from Harvard. Now all these facts were in the hands of the newspaper correspondents for nearly two days before they sent any account in. They did so then only because their respective papers found out about the affair and asked for news on it. With scarcely any exaggeration a newspaper story of the yellowist description might have been written, but the correspondents agreed among themselves to suppress the worst particulars and to send in only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred to, or on the University. Surely, when these facts are understood, no one can longer blame the Harvard representatives of the Boston newspapers for their action in the matter, or for the accounts they wrote. A BOARDER AT RANDALL HALL.