Harvard is unduly afflicted with societies, especially anti-societies. Their existence hasn't worried the administration much, but their activities have given Boston's citizenry adequate excitement for this spring.

First there are the Boston Nazis, a very unpopular little group, then the Harvard Nazis, and the Anti-Nazis, the National Student League, which doesn't like the Nazis, the New England League Against War and Fascism, which doesn't care much for any of the preceding organizations, and finally the Anti-National Student League, which seems to be the Harvard R. O. T. C. in disguise.

The welcome of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" to Boston Harbor on May 17 promised to be an admirable opportunity for these cozy little factions to display their spiritual vigor. Representatives of all were gathered early near the Navy Yard and a few practice volleys of harmless but obscene insults were exchanged as the agitators limbered up.

But Boston's finest must be afflicted with Jangled Nerves, because when Albort Mollinger of the League against War and Fascism started to shout louder and louder, some official, as yet unidentified, thought, "What the hell Why wait?" and loosed the cager bluecoats on the passive mob.

The result; 21 were arrested; the crowd was broken up, as were also the scalps of several Harvard undergraduates; and, where previously the various groups had been just waiting to lay the blame for the impending disturbance on each other, now all, including the spectators, joined in condemning the police who would not let them district.

Feeling Jarned high in Boston and Cambridge for a few days after this, and even the Harvard Faculty threw in its collective word against the police. Then the matter died down and was apparently forgotten until just the day before yesterday, when an official report of the incident was released, complete with afildavits of Harvard students. The 16 image document consures the "savage conduct" of the police, and demands the removal of the Boston Police Commissionor and Superintendent unless it can be proved that they were "in no way connected with the orders given."

It is just possible that, with the advocates of the report, the defenders of "free speech," and the sympathizers of the societies and anti-societies working against him, Commissioner Hultman will be removed. Such an eventuality, while it would edify Harvard's embryo organizers, might be unfortunate, for the Commissioner seems to be the only one who remembered that such a thing as courtesy might be extended to the officers and men of the "Karisruhe." The Princetonian.