Communication.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Senior football team won the class championship and were given the right to wear their numerals. But in awarding these numerals the Athletic Committee neglected or refused to present the sweaters and caps to the men, leaving it to the men to buy them individually, or, as is being done, to take up a collection.

I think most of the undergraduate body will agree that the calls for subscriptions for miscellaneous athletic activities are annoying. One is called upon to subscribe as a matter of class loyalty, college support--or even to help some collector "make" the managership of some team.

Now if subscriptions by the undergraduate body were necessary to support athletics--this would not be so objectionable, but the Athletic Committee is well able to finance all the athletic activities without calling for subscriptions. It seems to me that if the Athletic Committee would furnish in the concrete the numerals and insignia it awards in the abstract, it would do much to further the most legitimate of athletic activities--the interclass contests. 1904.