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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Mr. Spading has misunderstood me. And as the CRIMSON entitles his letter "A Good Answer," I dare infer that others have also.

In speaking of "the University," I referred not to Harvard students, but to the governing bodies of the University, more particularly to the Board of Overseers, for to that board the recommendations of the Committee on Military Science were made. The more discussion of military training by Harvard men as individuals the better. Universal training at Harvard, in the nation, and even in other nations, are matters about which we may well form and express opinions.

But for the Overseers to endorse any political program or to introduce a military program at Harvard with an avowed political end, or even for a Committee of the Overseers to recommend such action, seems to me indefensible. W. G. RICE, JR. '14