"De Gustibus--"

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The Illustrated has read the communication "Class Elections" in yesterday's CRIMSON.

The Illustrated does not question the legality and authority of a student council nominating committee to handle the student council elections, but it does question:

1. The democratic and impartial character of the present nominating committee.

2. Its authority to handle the Sophomore and Junior class elections.

In the first place, the present nominating committee, as stated in the last Illustrated, is composed of a group of men, who are themselves seeking office. Two of these men have already been announced as candidates for student council offices. The Illustrated believes that the nominating committee and its functions should be vested in impartial hands. Even the Senior class constitution provides for the impartial handling of its elections, by providing, that the President of the class shall appoint a nominating committee, no member of which shall be generally considered as a candidate for a class office. Surely something is wrong when two members of the present nominating committee are running for office.

Secondly, the Illustrated questions the right of the present nominating committee to handle the class elections. The Junior and Sophomore class constitutions state specifically:--"The class officers shall have general charge of the elections." Therefore the present nominating committee of the student council has nothing to do with the class elections, although they have had charge of them. As the officers of the class are not in college, we feel that in some democratic way, by mass-meeting or otherwise, that the handling of the elections for the Sophomore and Junior classes be placed in the hands of an impartial class committee.

The Illustrated without any other desire than that of fairness and impartiality in class and student council elections, has taken this stand. R. ROELOFS, JR., '18, PRES.,   The Harvard Illustrated.