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THE MAIL

The Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously.

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The wisdom of taking arms against all who have said a word in this Advocate and Lampoon controversy seems doubtful. Ia yesterday's column, the CRIMSON took issue with a reprinted Transcript editorial. Nobody denies that the Advocate published certain things lacking in good taste which, when brought into the limelight, appeared rather badly. In view, of this, instead of attacking the Transcript's comment resentfully and again bewailing the suppression of the Advocate as unjust and futile, the CRIMSON would have done well to get the matter drop. The subject was in the first place difficult to handle with dignity.

Since recent events have given those hostile papers which delight to stir up the dregs of the public, a splendid chance to roil the waters. It seems poor policy to find fault with a few admonitions from an elder friend. The Transcript is the last of all Boston papers whose words merit caustic reception at Harvard. Even if its editorial had a slightly paternal lingo, the intent was kindly. Harvard has enough ill-wishers already without carping at its friends. Frederick deW Pinaree ocC

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