In the latest of his pot-boiling series of-so-called investigations of representative American college existence, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts '07, burlesque artist extraordinary, has succeeded in arousing Harvard--or at least the editors of the Harvard Crimson--to hot indignation and to a vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor.

"A highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone," say the Crimson editorial columns. Quite right; but Mr. Roberts' genial resume of Harvard life can hardly be at the same time "a shower of garbage loosed upon innocent victims." Nor is it exactly "lurid," nor yet a "diabolically clever masterpiece of caricature."

Mr. Roberts is not a master of vituperation; he is certainly no artist at caricature. He is merely a good reporter with a sure nose for what will amuse the Saturday Post reading public, and a genius for writing syncopated prose what catches their attention.

In "Harvard: Fair and Cooler," he has done his-best to scare up a half dozen pages worth of "human interest" in one of our oldest and most tradition-bound colleges. In proving the central point of his article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily Sun.

Ed. Note:

In connection with the above clipping, it is interesting to note the following quotation from the CRIMSON editorial on Mr. Roberts' article, appearing on February 8:

"In the last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento...."