To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The defeat of the Harvard hockey team tonight at the hands of Yale is indicative of the decline albeit we hope it is but a temporary decline into which this University is drifting. We are losing everything.

Take our faculty for instance: Langfeld is gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter."

To revert to athletics, look at our magnificent, record against Yale during the past year. Harvard won a relay race, and a chess match, and that's about all. Now they have snatched the hockey championship from under our very noses. O tempora! O Moses! Can such things be? We might at least have gotten Tad Jones and a couple of athletes in exchange for Professor Baker. G. T. Chase '25.