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Communication

Retort Courteous

(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 Editor of the CRIMSON:

The gentle art of having an opinion has received welcome support in your columns. Mr. Enderby has an opinion. What makes it worth bothering about is the claim that it is not his alone. It is Harvard's, he believes. Such belief is interesting; it is bold as well as interesting. Unfortunately the boldness becomes continually and the interest evaporates when he goes on to classify the writings of the Eight More Harvard Poets as "Puerile Mouthings". It must be fairly evident to readers of the volume that anyone who thinks that "Puerile Mountings" really describes the work needs the attention of a competent English A Instructor. There might also be added a who's who in America and Mr. Enderhy could look up Dorian Abbot His statement about the publishers Limb" is not of the first order, and the point concerning the selection of the poets is sophistry of the same class. A careful reading of the introduction, and the letter of Mr.Wheel Wright's which excited Mr. Enderby's efforts, will make the case quite clear to everyone. Almost any sort of reading of the poets them solves will make clear a number of things in regard to Mr. Enderby's opinions. JAMES GOVTB COZESS `26

March 6, 1923.

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