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To the Editors of the Crimson:
It seems to me that in all the editorials and communications which have appeared in your columns opposing the erection of the new University Club on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets the main consideration has been altogether neglected. Ninety per cent, of the social clubs of the College have their club-houses in that section of Cambridge which lies to the south and west of Massachusetts avenue and Harvard square. The men who belong to these clubs are already provided with loafing places and they are not going to tramp any considerable distance to the University Club, which must naturally seem less home-like than their own club houses. The inevitable result of building the new club too far from the old established societies will be that the social men of the College will stay away from it entirely, the clubless men will attend in a body, and the University, instead of being solidified and drawn together, will be more sharply divided than ever before. The whole purpose of the new Union will be defeated. A CLUB MAN.
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