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Communication

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The letter you published this morning is indeed an astonishing document. Mr. de Rosay does not share the ideals for which Norman Prince died, therefore he objects to the erection of a monument in Prince's memory, and objects in the name of tolerance! That surpasses German logic; it is positively Bulgarian!

There were many Southerners in Harvard at the time of the Civil War. How many objected to the building of Memorial Hall? Few are the men in any civilized land who object to honors paid the dead, whatever cause they die for. The British gave a military funeral to the crews of fallen Zeppelins. There is true tolerance!

To my mind, the only objection to the proposal for a memorial is that it is not inclusive enough. Norman Prince deserves every tribute we can pay him, --but so does Dill Starr, so does Victor Chapman and all the men who have died for a country they loved or for a cause they believed in. FREDERIC SCHENCK '09.

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