The Infirmary.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

The strongest objection to the Corporation plan of raising funds for an infirmary is that it is taxation of the majority for the minority without consent. The scheme is substantially similar to a plan of compulsory life insurance both in the benefits to be obtained from it and the principal arguments against it.

It is impossible to meet the argument on the ground of strict rights. But, from a practica point of view, that argument insists too strictly on private rights. It is better for the college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life.

Possibly it might be advisable to obtain the consent of the student body by poll. The position of future students would then be no worse than that of a new generation which finds itself bound by the decisions of the judges of a previous generation, and the taxation of the whole for the part would be no more unjust than in the state support of hospitals.

GRADUATE.