To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I have been very much impressed in the last few months with the intelligence, courage and independence of the CRIMSON'S policies, not only as regards the present football issue, but in other matters, as well. It marks, I think, quite a new epoch in college journalism. I have always looked through the CRIMSON in the morning. Now I read it especially its editorials with care and respect. Of course I do not always agree in details. But I rejoice and I congratulate the College on its vigor, the restraint and fairness with which the CRIMSON is now conducted in this and on other issues.

As an old football player and a lifelong lover of the game, I have talked-- whenever I have had a chance--with undergraduate members of the football team and generally have found them agreeing entirely with Mr. Owen's communication. Very few of the football players that I have known of recent years have enjoyed the game. They have played it as a matter of duty and many of them have in private conversation supported something very like the policy which the CRIMSON is now advocating. It is not easy for a college football player to say this in public. But no one ought to he misled into assuming that the CRIMSON'S present policy is opposed by most of those who have played on University teams.

My chief interest, however, is not in the details of the CRIMSON'S present football policy, but in the courage and independence needed to take a stand on such a matter at all and abundantly manifest in the paper at the present time. Along with the new policy of the Student Council embodied in its interest in educational matters, especially in the present college curriculum, I think this new policy of the CRIMSON marks a very long step forward, a refreshing change of attitude of the undergraduate body towards the management of their own affairs. Richard C. Cabot '89,   Professor of Social Ethics.