To the Editor of the Crimson,

I am very glad to have your letter of regret and apology for the Crimson's absurd and false report of my talk at Leverett House. If future boards emulate your desire to "take every conceivable step to prevent any recurrence of the same trouble:", perhaps some good will come out of evil, The evil is not confined to the wrong to the individual when there may be general university or public interests involved.

So long as immature youngsters with a flare for the sensational are encouraged to report talks on technical subjects, you will always run the danger of printing a lot of fiction, but more serious sins might be avoided if those on your staff who edit copy and write headlines would assume tentatively that professors in the university are neither fools nor knaves and certain from portraying them as such without first getting from them either conscious or unconscious continuation. Thomas Reed Powell