IT is the tendency of the age to excuse many social errors in young
people, and especially is this true of the mischievous pranks of college
boys. If Harvard football heroes and their "rooters," for example, wish
to let their hair grow long and wear high turtle-necked red "sweaters,"
corduroy trousers and huge "frat" pins, I, for one, can see no grave
objection, for "boys will be boys" and I am, I hope, no "old fogy" in
such matters. But I also see no reason why these same young fellows
should not be interested in the graces of the salon and the arts of the
drawing-room. Consider, for example, the following two letters,
illustrating the correct and incorrect method in which two young college
men should correspond,
and tell me if there is not some place in our college curriculum for a
Professor of Deportment:
