In the Harvard Square Telegraph Office yesterday afternoon we witnessed a drama which seemed to sum up completely the struggle of the last vestiges of Puritanism against a newer and freer world, the protest of the sturdy native stock against the influx of "foreigners" brought in by the new educational policies of Harvard and Radcliffe.
A Radcliffe girl was composing a lengthy message to the home folks with much pencil-biting and puckering of brow. We didn't go so far as to peck over her shoulder but it was evident that it was an urgent request of some kind and she was afraid the demand was couched in too dictatorial terms. Some mollifying touch was necessary to close it.
"Is 'love' free?" she asked the clerk.
Quick came the stern reply: "Not in this state, lady!"
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