ANGLOMANIA II.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the ideas and customs of other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs.

Let us not talk of "narrowing down our models" when objection is made to the imitation of England's institutions. We need no broader or more liberal copy than the true story of Americanism. As for those who find "the dress of Englishmen more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own," let them preserve, and "try to copy after them in these respects." I do not imagine, however, that "our university men" will give their influence in that direction, and I believe the CRIMSON teaches, not that we are to follow what is American because it is American, but because it is emphatically the best thing to do.

F. W. K.