THE OPEN FORUM

The CRIMSON considers it not the least of its service to the University that, in opening its editorial columns to the communications of students, it provides a forum for the informal expression of opinion. So far as space permits, the CRIMSON is glad to publish letters on subjects of general interest to the University.

There seems to be a subtle connection between the number of these communication which arrive all the CRIMSON office at any given time, and the amount of electricity in the college atmosphere. When students' minds are alert, the mails are full; when the undergraduates appear sunk in slothful indifference, they have neither praise nor censure to offer on any subject.

Unlike other large animals, a university hibernates during the summer; and, properly enough, after it awakens in the early autumn, it requires some time to get its blood circulating again. Believing that this before-breakfast sleep-each college year should, by this time, iness characteristic of the beginning of have begun to vanish, the CRIMSON reiterates its invitation to the University at large to use its editorial columns for the public expression of opinion on University affairs. All letters intended for publication must be signed by the writer, and only by special arrangement will they be published anonymously.