THE SPEAKERS' CLUB.

We wish to call the attention of our readers to the communication on the Speakers' Club printed in another column. This communication seems to refute absolutely the several criticisms made against the Club in the communication in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON, and the facts presented show that the criticisms made were unjust and censurable, and untrue as regards some statements made. Like all other undergraduate organizations the Speakers' Club has its faults, but in the main it is doing a splendid and much-needed work. It is not merely an organization of prominent debaters and speakers in the College, but one whose membership, although necessarily limited in number by natural conditions, is designed to be representative of all phases of University activities, to exert a democratic influence, and to serve the University by offering opportunities for men to develop the faculty of extemporaneous and prepared speaking. These ideals the Club realizes by bringing before the University speakers of prominence and marked personality, and by regular and frequent meetings open to all members of the University, thus establishing an official and representative forum for the discussion of any subjects of interest to men at Harvard. The Speakers' Club is not a mere honorary club for speakers of prominence. Its aims, as we understand them, are three--to be representative in membership democratic in influence, and of service to the University--and these three aims the Club seems to be realizing.