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To the Editor of the Crimson:

The editorial which appeared last Friday in which the House Masters were accused of "abusing their rights of selection . . . for the purposes of discrimination" and "rash actions" is grossly unfair.

The position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range.

In view of these complexities, it is certainly not surprising that mistakes should occur; but it is probable that they would occur more often under a system of set criteria. To ascribe these mistakes to bad faith on the part of the Masters is unjustifiably malicious. Theodore Shohl '41.