To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

How anyone could so completely miss the point of your editorial on "The Iron Man", as did Mr. Seaver in his communication of the 16th, is a mystery to me. Not having "been to busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it", I find the ideas you there advanced rather compelling, as would anyone who did not read it with "a chip on his shoulder". The CRIMSON, I take it, did not "pass judgement" on anyone. It merely tried to point out that the Age of Machinery has brought with it fewer hours of labor--for the student as well as for the "chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer". Moreover, the tendency is very evidently toward a still further shortening of the working day as time goes on.

What more natural, then, that we should adjust out school system, particularly the primary, so that education for the best possible enjoyment of leisure may replace present-day education for economic efficiency--alike for the laborer and Mr. Seaver's "young barbarians" in the colleges? After all, it is the educated people who, by the large, are the happiest; that background social, philosophical, aesthetic that detached point of view which education gives, somehow helps to preserve one's equanimity amid the vicissitudes of existence. Such being the case, Mr. Seaver can not, with decency, dub "Pharisee" and "hypocrite" those who are anxious to place the means of happiness within reach of all; and this suggestion most certainly should not be greeted by the working youth with "an uncultured guffaw or a contentious snort according to the condition of his uneducated liver", whether it comes from Mr. Seaver's "fine gentlemen" of Harvard, or from Arthur Pound in the "Atlantic." NORMAN H. PARSONS '22

Nov., 19, 1921.