To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It is difficult to accept as logical or just a recent editorial on English 72. Nothing is more legitimate than editorial criticism of existing courses; indeed, it might be pointed out the Harvard CRIMSON, especially in its Student Vagabond, has performed a valuable service, on the side of eulogy, in calling the auditor's attention to stimulating lectures which otherwise he might have missed. On one occasion last autumn, the Vagabond, after confessing his own inability to enjoy Wordsworth, announced that Mr. Lowes would lecture on the gentleman that morning. No one who heard the superb analysis of the Westmoreland poet, and later the reading of the Immortality Ode, would deny that the more undergraduates who care for beautiful letters, throng the benches of English 72, the better for them.

The proof of a pudding is in the eating, and the fact that this course is overcrowded testifies to its strong appeal. One might imagine from reading your editorial that English 72 was devoted exclusively to the pedantic examination of minutiae, a method of approach with which the writer, for one, has no sympathy whatever. The truth about English 72 is that its head has brought all his forceful scholarship to bear upon such things, while retaining his own remarkable sense of values and proportion. What interests Mr. Lowes in these Romantics, after their mysterious genius, is their humanity, and the letter he has consistently enriched with his own. Cuthbert Wright ocC.