To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Mr. Ehrensperger's suggestion in the Alumni Bulletin that we extinguish the flames of college radicalism by pouring tea on them, is a little less quaint than it might appear at first blush. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that it would in all probability meet the approval of Mr. Calvin Coolidge himself and the editors of the Delineator. Certain skeptics, it is true, have irreverently questioned the accuracy of Mr. Coolidge's observation, and have asked to be shown signs that there really is any radicalism among college students. They point out that the average undergraduate exceeds even his immediate forebears in complacent conservatism, and that the spirit of critical examination is simply non-existent in colleges.

But of course we cannot hide our heads in the sand like that and expect to escape the imminent thunderstorm. Things are, unfortunately, happening in the world outside, and before we know it college students may begin to take a most indecorous interest in them--as perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid yawn before the battle-cry! F. N. ARVIN JR. '21.

June 13, 1921.