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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In view of the facts published in yesterday's CRIMSON, the serious question arises whether the College public has any call to interfere in the matter. The Faculty have taken the general attitude of non-interference with the societies. The writer firmly believes that in general the students as a body have no business whatsoever to interfere with the individual societies. Yet the College is not entirely disconnected from the societies, for they are both made up of the same men and any serious evil in the societies results in injury to the individuals and to the College through the individuals. Yet even here, there should be no interference by public opinion unless the wrong becomes a public wrong. At that time and not till then is the College public justified in putting in its oar.

The Polo Club has had a career not merely of drinking, about the desirability of which men differ, but of prolonged drunkenness, which all sane men agree is bad. This time the drunkenness was on a public occasion, not in Cambridge, but in Boston, under the eyes of the newspaper reporters, who are only too eager to seize and spread abroad scandal about any large college. The Polo Club has wronged the Freshman class and the College in the public eye. Why the College and the class should be the only ones to suffer, and the Polo Club, as such, get off scot-free is not clear.

The proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed.

The writer does not believe in washing dirty linen in public, but since those who are capable of privately suppressing the evil have been so loth to act, it seems as if a brief display of soiled articles would be worth while if thereby this nuisance can be stopped. GRADUATE.