To the Editor of the Crimson:

I understand that we are to have compulsory athletics at Harvard. I am afraid I shall have to avoid these, for though my patriotism is undimmed, it will be impossible for me to exert myself in my present condition. This condition is, of course, due to the sparsity of food, in particular to the lack of the great calcium bearer, milk.

For years the doctors have told me that it was essential that I should consume at least a quart of milk daily, while my brain has informed me that it was of primary importance for me to have coffee to prevent me from falling asleep in the midst of the ever important intellectual conversations which flourish at the end of all House meals. Now I am forced to dispense with at least one of these, and I find it impossible to determine which. The result is that for days I have had nothing to drink; I am completely asleep on my feet, and if my bones do not start crumbling from lack of calcium, I am likely to stay that way. Please help me. Thomas S. Kuhn '44