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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Some time ago I wrote an essay in which I argued that our contemporary universities, (having Harvard particularly in mind), were on the decline. My reason for believing that this was the case was that the ever increasing interest in Economics was gradually replacing the study of Art and the Classics in our Universities. I believed this to be a symptom of decay because Economics is in general studied with the selfish and mercenary object in mind of being able to make money more efficiently, while Art and the Classics are generally studied because of a disinterested love for knowledge. When avarice and selfishness begin to be dominant in any institution: state, church or university, that institution invariably enters upon its decline.

Since I wrote that essay two very important events have happened at Harvard: First, we are to build a new School of Business Administration at the cost of five millions of dollars. Second, Professor Baker, of the 47 Workshop has resigned from Harvard's Faculty.

What does this mean but that Economics is replacing Art at Harvard? What does this mean but that money and money makers are controlling Harvard's policy, that the university is being run by merchants for the benefit of those who aspire to become merchants? These are events in the history of our institution which are as certain to bring about decay as they were the causes in the decay of the Roman Republic.

Ye, I am bitter towards those who are controlling the policy of Harvard at present. And I want them to know that those who came to Harvard because they love Art and the Drama were struck a painful and shameful blow when the fact was made known Tuesday that Professor Baker, representing creative Art at Harvard has been forced to resign: forced to resign because the liberalism of Harvard was not great enough to permit originality to flourish forced to resign because of the practical and narrow vision of those who control our universities!

I cry out in appeal to the Alumni of our beloved Harvard to check the work of those who control Harvard's policy at present! I cry out in appeal to all Harvard men to do all they can to censure and condemn the policy of the university which has forced Professor Baker: the man who has attracted aspiring dramatists from all over the country to work with him, from out our Faculty! Sidney H. Blackstone '26.