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To the Editors of the Crimson:

No American university student can read the press reports of the military persecution to which the students of Russian institutions of learning have been subjected of late, without feeling cut to the quick. Whatever may be one's political views concerning Russian affairs, there can be no difference of opinion among right-minded men as to the tragedy brought about in the lives of its peaceful students by the nation which convened the Hague Peace Conference. A respectful protest on the part of the students in St. Vladimir University at Kieff, resulted in the imprisonment of many students and a sentence of compulsory military service on many more. As a result of these harsh sentences, renewed disturbances have taken place at Kieff, and a general uprising of university students throughout the empire is to be apprehended. Harvard men who are at all interested in the fortunes of their student brethren elsewhere should assemble in the mass-meeting and pass resolutions denouncing such uncivilized invasion of student freedom; they should extend their sympathy to their fellows who are sacrificing their lives in the cause of student liberty. Such a protest can in no sense mean an encouragement to a revolt against college authority. It is an expression of indignation against any attempt on the part of political and military powers to interfere with the student bodies the world over. MEYER BLOOMFIELD '01.