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THE PRESS

Live and Let Live

Those Harvard lads who called the police when their bootlegger started suddenly to over-charge them are some how all wrong. Just when everyone begins to wonder if Harvard men aren't, after all, good guys, just after the Lampoon makes the scoop of years by filching the famous Yale fence, just when Princeton begins to feel a little sorry about it all, a few men destroy everything. Not that most of us haven't felt justified, from time to time, in having a bootlegger apprehended, but we somehow laugh it off.

I'm not, mind you, objecting to the principle behind the Harvard denizens' actions. But they should have known better. Live and let live. Did the Yale Record attempt to have the Harvard Lampoon punished for stealing the fence? Aren't we all the victims at times of the exorbitancy of bootleggers, ticket brokers, taxi drivers and, I well remember, stock markets? No doubt Yale is now laughing heartily at Harvard's expense.

Those bootleggers were indubitably Yale Men. --B. D. in the Columbia Spectator.

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