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To the Editor of the Crimson:

With regard to Mr. Bingham's statement and your editorial in Saturday's issue on professionalism in football, we should like to take this opportunity to take exception to Harvard's view on the matter within and without her halls.

We have heard the rumor bruited; and we ourselves have been and are under the impression that the Athletic Association sends some of its football players to tutoring schools and even pays their bills. Whether or not this is true, we believe that the charge must be answered.

For if it is true that the H.A.A. allows its players to attend tutoring schools, if it is true that the H.A.A. pays those tutoring bills, then Harvard herself is open to charges of commercialization despite all assertions and other examples to the contrary. When any group of athletes is forced by a rigorous time schedule away from the prior claims of academic subjects, that group is not true to the spirit, or even the letter, of amateurism.

Thank you for your attention in this matter. It is only because we wish Harvard to defend herself against, or admit the justice of, a growing, though unrecognized, accusation of hypocrisy that we ask this; we do not seek to make unnecessary trouble or embarrassment. E. F. Davis '38,   T. V. Marsters '38.