Those who were amazed recently at the disclosure by Sing Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should be.

It seems that Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, visiting lecturer on economics for two years and an associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America, is none other than Isaac Lewin, enterprising Berlin banker who in 1928 cleaned up a tidy sum by the simple expedient of forging bills of exchange and selling them to foreign banks at a discount.

One's first reaction might well be dismay at the gullibility of a learned committee which permitted itself to be duped by so glib a charlatan. Even his name, now that it's all over, seems a little too well chosen. But when one considers the success of such men as Dr. Cook and Prince Harry F. Romanoff, one cannot be too harsh with a faculty which trusted a man skillful enough to elude the Reich's police for four years.

It does not seem entirely unreasonable that a University should include on its faculty at least one such mounte-bank. However sorry his code of ethics may be, he may possibly be able to impart to his students something which the ordinary pedagogue cannot. And it takes all kinds to make a faculty. Cornell Daily Sun.