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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I have one or two personal friends in the insurance business, each of whom I can vouch for as being a perfect gentleman and a clear-headed business man. One in particular is incidentally a young Harvard graduate with a cum laude on his sheepskin, who to my knowledge is not given to making "cringing advances" nor to talking to hear himself talk. Therefore, although in no way implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that the difficulty is chiefly with the writer himself. Either he lacks the strength of personality to dismiss gracefully an over-attentive agent, or else he fails to appreciate the scientific basis and permanency of life insurance, which I stand ready to prove are established facts. I object to the imbecile attitude in regard to insurance men.

I hope that the extravagant language of the communication referred to will be a sufficient indictment of its validity, and that it will influence its writer to excuse any good-natured tendency in the same direction on my own part. W. G. B. '14.