SPACE FOR SPECTATORS

Inasmuch as the first reading period definitely marks the beginning of the end for Seniors, now does not constitute too early a moment to consider the end and how it may well be improved. Commencement Week is being spoken of here, and there are many ways in which that week renders itself unappealing both to the graduating class of Harvard College and the families thereof.

Improvements in the arrangements for the Baccalaureate Sermon must be most urgently desired by the senior's supporters who last year crowded about the entrance to Memorial Church long before 1937 filed through the doors. Under the impression that they would not all find seats these people pushed and pulled in a manner unbecoming in the Yard. When the doors were opened, still under the impression that they might not be seated advantageously, they rushed together so that at least one stumbled and came near to being trampled. Of the first comers some found seats in the balcony, while a few sat on the steps of the balcony. Then the Graduating Class marched in. It did not seem so large. Many choice seats remained unfilled on the floor of the Church. One moment please! These were now seen to have been reserved by fate for the late arrivals.

All was haphazard. The old and the young, the halt and the well, the first and the last were seated more or less at random by a large corps of Junior Ushers, even as the wind, blowing where it listeth, soweth the weeds.

Certainly the 1937 performance was nothing less than disgraceful. This year the number of Seniors who expect to attend their Baccalaureate should be estimated in advance. Then every pew should be reserved for families and friends and filled by tickets of admittance.