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To the Editors of the Crimson:

In 1861 Harvard sent the flower of her sons to preserve the Union and defend the flag. In memory of those who fell a stately tower now rises in our midst, - but the flag they fought to save is nowhere flying.

The law of Massachusetts prescribes that upon every school-house in the commonwealth shall be displayed the stars and strips, yet in the midst of Harvard's historic buildings, in the shadow of her traditions, the flag of our country is nowhere visible. Is it right that Harvard, of all places in the world, should have no apparant sign of her loyal spirit? Is it right that while every place of education in the country but ourselves flys the national colors, we should be without them?

The men in Harvard now would respond to the call of the country as eagerly as those of forty years ago; let us have the stars and stripes floating above the elms to tell the world that the same spirit now smoulders within the college as that which burst into flame in '61. There is room in front of University or by the side of the drive that runs across from the gate to put in a pole, or the flag might be flown on University itself. If this were done it would do more to decorate the Yard than forty thousand Chinese lanterns on Class Day.

OLD GLORY.