AN APPEAL FROM THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE LEAGUE.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In reply to your suggestion in Thursday's issue, I wish to state that we secured Sever 11 because Mr. Gough preferred to speak to a small, select body of students; rather than to a large, mixed audience in Sanders Theatre. If the faculty will allow us the use of Sanders for our future meetings, we shall only be too glad to avail ourselves of the opportunity.

I learned from a private conversation with Mr. Gough that the simple presence of a Total Abstinence League here was a strong argument against the common notion that Harvard is a centre of intemperance. He urged it as a claim upon those who practice abstinence and have the good name of their college at heart, to come forward and support the League by their membership. Many men refuse to join, merely because they do not believe in pledges. These are among the men who have the greatest respect for their college, and to these I appeal to give the League their support, not on the ground that it will influence their conduct for the better, but on the ground that the good name of the college may be sustained. I sincerely hope those men who at once practice total abstinence and wish their college to have a high standing before the country on the question of temperance, will give us their aid. We need it, for the number in the League is small in comparison with the number who certainly practice abstinence. If those who are with us in spirit will but enroll their names on our book, we can show to the sceptical world about us that Harvard is not a training school for intemperance, but that we have a strong total abstinence within our walls.

The secretary's hours are 9-10 A. M., Tuesday and Thursday; 3-4 P. M., Monday and Wednesday, 48 Thayer.

VICTOR C. ALDERSON, '85, Pres. H. T. A. L