Undergraduates frequently chide their elders. More often than not their chidings are ignored or their presumptions are smugly set aside as adolescent insolence. We are not certain, however, that either device will serve in the case of the Harvard Crimson's challenge to its own president and other intellectual leaders, as well as religious spokesmen.

The Crimson editors have charged that many prominent educators and religious leaders are using the great weight of their positions to jeopardize American neutrality by publicly and boldly espousing the Allied cause. . .

There is a strong element of the ironic in the Crimson's remonstrance. Youth is generally under criticism for its impetuosity. But upon this occasion we find the tables reversed and the undergraduates in the role of the moderate ones. . .

We aren't so sure but what the undergraduates win the first decision for sobriety and realism. A nation should be able to look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript.