To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Referring to your editorial of this morning, "Boy Page Mr. Whitney", I believe I can contribute some decided evidences of Harvard democracy. As you know, the Engineering School has several dozen of its third-year men out in industry on the cooperative plan. These men are seeking knowledge of the world's work by measures more authoritative than books. Commenting on one of these men last week, a foundry superintendent said as follows: "When I was asked to put your student on our cupola gang, I thought he would be doing well if he stood the pig iron carrying about three hours. Well, I forgot about him and didn't think of him again for three days. I then found him on the job and immediately transferred him to another place where he could learn another situation. In a few minutes the cupola foreman came around and asked what I had done with his very best worker and added that he was doing the work of three other laborers. That's the kind of a man that gives your college a good reputation."

One more illustration bearing on the point but from a different angle, is this incident. In a repair gang of workers, the youngest apprentice had just quit work. "Public opinion" elected the next youngest employee to succed him in getting noonday milk for several workers. The young man in question performed the service with smiles and was obliged to "keep the change" sometimes as compensation. This milk vendor (or shall we say 100 percent worker?) was a Harvard student, but neither he nor his fellow workers remembered that at the time. CHAS. W. LYTLE.   Director of Industrial Cooperation.

February 14, 1921.