Communications.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The revival of the plan to use the Stadium on Class Day for exercises in place of the Statue exercises suggests several objections,--some of which when offered before carried enough weight, it was thought, to make the plan a dead issue. These objections are:

First and foremost, that Class Day exercises can have no significance of association or setting away from the Yard and Memorial Hall. Without such significance exercises of the nature of the State exercises have no reason to be, for much the same reason that the Mardi Gras, for instance, could not be reproduced for exhibition purposes at St. Louis, without losing in impressiveness. A little reflection will make clear to everyone the relation of the Yard to Class Day. Imagine a Harvard Class Day at Berkeley Oval.

Another objection is that the women will not be suitably gowned for a dusty walk or the crush at the bridge, and this is a valid objection; for it is likely to prevent many from attending, and any lack of co-operation on the part of members of the class arising form objection to the plan must inevitably defeat the purpose of a class exercise.

The exercises proposed in substitution for the Statue exercises are aptly characterized by the CRIMSON in yesterday's editorial, and nothing better has been suggested. The Stadium would be anything but impressive with an audience of a few thousand in an isolated group at one end; and a larger audience is not desired, for a public show is not proposed.

Assuming that the present Statue exercises cannot be repeated this year, would it not be wiser to omit all formal exercises in the afternoon, unless an acceptable program, of exercises can be arranged, to take place in the Yard, as in the years before the Statue was substituted for the tree, as the centre of interest? "1904."