No Personalities.

(The Editor, "Smad,")

I wish to protest against the publication in your last issue of the letter headed by you "Ex-President in True Colours," and signed "Weirite." The letter is not a matter of general news, but is merely a scurrilous personal attack by some disgruntled individual who has not the courage to use his own name but takes refuge in a nomde-plume. Not only will he not come out into the open, but what is worse, he misrepresents the facts by laying particular emphasis on statements isolated from their context and also by giving them a meaning entirely foreign to that originally intended. And while I can appreciate that you, sir, may have been short of copy, I am nevertheless very surprised that you should resort to publishing under such a caption, personal diatribes to fill your paper.

As for the substance of my letter, I still adhere to my original statement that the House will be a power for good if properly led. And I still say that as there are no residents over the age of 21, it is reasonable to suppose that experience in some spheres will be lacking, and notwithstanding that there are capable leaders in the house, leadership of residents in such activities must come from outside. The ridiculous suggestion of "Weirite" that I consider myselfalone competent to fill the bill is apparently inspired by the fact that some resident's vanity is wounded, and I assure all men in residence that my speech and letter were intended to reflect in no way on the personnel of the House but rather on the policy of the Management Committee.

To enter into a controversy over such a matter is rather futile, but I feel that my personal side of the casealso warrants presentation.

[Discussion on this subject is now closed.—Ed.]