EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I am glad to notice the communication from " '83" in your issue of yesterday, both because it shows an interest in the department of class day celebration with which I am concerned, and also because it gives me an opportunity to make a statement of the difficulties under which the work has been progressing. If a satisfactory poem had been handed in, as requested, a week from the day on which my former notice was printed in your pages, the first rehearsal would have taken place three days later than 82's. But what had been received was unsatisfactory to the members of '83 whom I had selected as critics, and I have spent the last two weeks in endeavoring vainly to obtain verses. Finally, in defiance of form, and against my inclination, I have been obliged to scribble something myself, which will have to do in default of better. Now that I know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness.

EDWARD PERRY WARREN, Chorister.