THOU SHALT NOT LIE.

With President Lowell's sanction of a graduate committee to canvass for the new gymnasium fund, the chief obstacle to its progress has been removed. There is no longer necessity or opportunity for either graduate or undergraduate to beat about the bush.

It is pretty well decided that Harvard needs a new gymnasium. During the year the CRIMSON has tried to show this is various ways. Some idea of the buildings at other colleges has been given; articles have been run by Mr. Garcelon, Dr. Sargent and Dean Bradford. The present gymnasium, -- though, through the generosity of Mr. Hemenway, it was as well equipped at the time of its erection as any in the country, is now far below the standard of a large university.

The graduates have stated their willingness to contribute toward a new building, if the undergraduates would give proof of their eagerness for such a building. This the undergraduates of five classes have done with pledges aggregating $14,000. To date one excuse has been open to these undergraduates for refusing to pay their pledges. They have rather justly protested that there were no signs of a graduate committee and no signs of progress. Their feelings were well expressed in the centre page of the going out number of the Lampoon's 1914 Board, which depicted, the present chairman of the undergraduate committee pointing out the newly finished gymnasium to his grandchildren in 1975. The graduates, however, were only awaiting the approval of President Lowell before furthering a scheme in which many of them are deeply interested.

From now on they will push the work actively, and the last excuse of the delinquent undergraduate is gone. Let him remember that his pledge was more than a signification of good will; it was a promise to pay. So long as he holds off from redeeming his promise; so much he costs the committee in time and money, so much he breaks an unwritten understanding between graduates and undergraduates, and so much he hinders the consummation of that end most devoutly to be wished--a new gymnasium.