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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

A man coming from the West and entering Harvard without having attended a preparatory school in the East comes into an entirely different atmosphere and entirely different surroundings from those which he is used to. He is apt to misinterpret the conservatism which he finds here as a rank lack of interest. This is more or less of a disadvantage to Western men, but a disadvantage entirely due to a misunderstanding. The advantages are many. Besides the well-recognized advantages which are open to everyone, the Westerner has the advantage of being in a new and different situation, so he very naturally looks at things from quite a different standpoint than does the Eastern man; and is perhaps more able to take things for what they are worth. Whereas if he were in a Western college or in an Eastern college composed largely of Western men, he would be in a more congenial atmosphere from the beginning, and his view-point would change but little. I do not mean to say that the atmosphere here is uncongenial to Western men, but it is likely to be so at the beginning, due to the misunderstanding pointed out above. In short, then, outside of the academic advantages which he gets here he gets a broader horizon and a broader sense of judgment. It would take a great many more Western men than could possibly come here to so change the atmosphere that they would not feel the difference from their former surroundings.

As to the methods of getting more men from the West, it has already been advocated that the Glee Club, and such organizations, take Western tours, which would undoubtedly have more or less of the desired result. But the chief duty at present lies with our graduates in the West and with the men from the West who are now in the University. The graduates in the West should be urged through the graduate papers to use their influence to send men here, and everyone of the undergraduate Westerners as well should so realize the great advantages that we have here that he should exert to the utmost his influence among his friends in the West, however small the number may be, to bring more men here from the West.

It is not necessary to discuss Harvard's being "a rich man's college," as everyone who knows us knows what an utterly silly statement that is. As to the claim that there is favoritism shown towards Eastern men on the athletic teams the same can be said. The plain and simple answer is that the much greater proportion of Eastern men naturally bring a proportional representation on the teams