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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In regard to the advisability of the proposed agreement between Harvard College and the "Med. Fac." Society, I think there are several points that have been overlooked or not considered at all.

In the first place we must get over the impression that any of this society's actions are criminal--the motive of crime is lacking. Foolish and childish they may be and inspired by the same love for excitement, that made us as boys "book" apples from the neighbor's barn or ring his door-bell at the imminent risk of being spanked, but they cannot be called criminal.

The recent attack on Phillips Brooks House was an evidence of poor taste and also of a certain unfortunate disregard for the feelings of the College community, but the attack was not made with the same motive as that which incites the ordinary burglar and cannot therefore be put in the same class.

The "Med. Fac." apparently originated when the College was more like a school than a large University and when the students were imbued with that spirit of prank playing natural to such a situation. As long as the College remained a College this spirit was fostered and some explanation could then be made for the existence of such an organization although its existence was to our minds unjustifiable. But now times have changed, the University has put away childish things and the "Med. Fac." is out of date.

The external harm to the University that these pranks have done in nearly every case outweighs the internal harm, for reports of such an attack as was made on Brooks House are reprinted in the papers all over the country, exaggerated and misrepresented to such an extent that they really give Harvard a black eye.

The end to be attained then is to root out this organization from our College life, to leave it far behind, as a "bugaboo" of infantile years and this end seems to be attainable only by the methods proposed by the Dean.

The advantages to be gained by this agreement are manifold. We are not only to be rid of an organization that has done us great harm in the past, but one whose very presence in the College community will do us great harm in the future.

What would be the result of expelling the one man caught (who apparently neither entered the building nor knew that the stolen tablet was in memory of Bishop Brooks) and the non-adoption of the proposed agreement? The society would then be free to continue, greater precautions of secrecy would undoubtedly be taken by its members and more trouble for the University would ensue.

In matters of this kind a far sighted policy is always the best one to adopt and it would not be for sighted to allow the "Med. Fac." to continue. To quote a New York writer who has lately commented on the matter in the Transcript under the title of "Americas Juventutis:" "The 'Med. Fac.' is seldom funny any more. It is outgrown and nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows us to see the whole affair through the eyes of those who understand Harvard, and how the traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present day to do things of which they do not perhaps approve. The survival of the "Med. Fac." to the present day is merely an evidence of how tradition lives at Harvard, foolish as that tradition we had better leave far behind us.  ANOTHER UNDERGRADUATE