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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial of today on the Fish-Morgan suspension is admirable in its restraint, but does it emphasize quite strongly enough the injustice of the Administrative Board's action?

As you suggest, no sympathy is due the men. They heedlessly took their risk of punishment; 'yes, more, as the event has proved, though they could hardly have anticipated such a result, they recklessly imperilled the cause of which they were the chosen guardians. They deserve punishment and the harshest censure from the public opinion of the College. But why such punishment, one that bears hardest, not on the culprits, but on the crew, and especially on its devoted captain and the hard-working coach, and on the University as a whole? Why not show some sense of proportion, some justice in the administration of justice, some power to discriminate between heedlessness and moral turpitude? What is left for the really serious moral offences except expulsion, which we know is reserved for capital offenders? Such administration is in the interest of lawlessness, because it subverts discipline by creating sympathy for the culprits and contempt for the authorities. J. G. THORP '79. Cambridge, June 16, 1908.