FACULTY AND UNDERGRADUATES.

The CRIMSON has been taken to task for unnecessarily inflaming the undergraduates on the athletic situation. We have been informed that such appeals have little effect upon one portion of the University to which they have been addressed, namely the Faculty.

We may well be disturbed at this, for in any difference of opinion hard feeling is sure to result, if the parties at odds cannot consider fair-mindedly each others' points of view. Friction between instructors and students is the last thing that any of us care to see, but if any friction has resulted, the CRIMSON does not hold itself responsible. In upholding our right to engage in our full quota of intercollegiate contests, we have merely expressed the opinion of a large majority of the undergraduates, and incidentally our own.

If the Faculty is as anxious as the undergraduates to avoid trouble, the students' opinions must be considered. Important issues affecting their welfare and happiness, whether on athletics, dormitory problems, class segregation, or what you will, must not be fought out over their heads. Taxation without representation will never be tolerated.

On January 11, 1895, the CRIMSON called attention to the lack of all strife between undergraduates and Faculty, comparing the situation with the turbulent times 10 years earlier. At that time, continues the editorial, "all questions bearing directly on student interests were settled by the Faculty, with comparatively little consideration of the student opinions on these questions. The result was inevitable. The men were told, 'You must do such and such a thing,' and immediately the natural dislike to being treated like children brought out the reply. 'We'll see if we do.'"

In the present case we do not believe that the resentment of the undergraduates is as bull-headed as this editorial would imply. Their position is the result of careful consideration after two, three, or four years of contact with the conditions. If they could be assured that their convictions were to have a fair hearing, a long step would be taken in the restoring of confidence. Until that condition comes or returns, as the editorial of 1895 would have us believe--the Faculty, and not the undergraduates, must be held responsible for trouble.