(The Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

As president of the Harvard Advocate, I must protest against the attitude assumed by the CRIMSON regarding the preposterous "tempest in a tea-pot" occasioned by the anonymity of the red-covered Harvard Magazine. It is the policy of the Advocate to "live and let live." The Harvard Advocate has no quarrel with the Harvard Magazine (white). The fact that both strive to be literary papers is, I am aware, excellent ground in which to plant rumors. But the Harvard Magazine reaps in fields other than those from which the Advocate procures its harvest. The Advocate, as one man, agrees with you most heartily that the Harvard Magazine should stand on its merits. It was in accordance with this idea that I had removed from the number now in press a cartoon unfavorable to the Harvard Magazine. In justice, let me add that the majority of the Advocate Board was critical of the wisdom of running any such notice of the new paper. It was after reconsideration and in accord with the sentiment of the Board that that cartoon was removed. The Advocate knows that the editors of the Harvard Magazine have their own, well-defined policy, and it does not recognize the right of anyone to interfere with that policy. The new magazine represents a wide stratum of public literary taste. The editors of it honestly believe in their conception of literature, as was shown by the difficulty with which they were retired from the Advocate Board last year.

Regarding the scurrilous insinuations of the communication published in the CRIMSON last Friday, and signed by two persons who do not in the least represent graduate or undergraduate opinion but are known to be personal enemies of an editor of the Advocate, let me remark:

"A Premier in Downing Street,

Forming a cabinet,

Couldn't find people

Less fit for their work."

I hope it will not again be necessary for me to risk the revival of acrimonious altercations, as your position concerning the red-covered and ridiculous juvenile Harvard Magazine has compelled me to do. CHARLES MACVEAGH, JR., '19.