To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Perkins Hall parking lot is a disgrace to the alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain depth. On the surface of "Lake Perkins" float pieces of old lumber, clothing, garbage, and sundry other debris. A student auto bearing a Massachusetts license plate was recently mired in the middle of Lake Perkins for two weeks, blocking off the rest of the lot since a voyage across this atrocity is necessary to get in and out.

Harvard Law School is presently engaged in raising money from students for a building program. It spends thousands of dollars annually putting little stick and wire fences around its walks. It recently replaced the plain glass in Hastings Hall mail boxes with new, beveled glass. Many students hesitate to contribute money for such silly projects when the school is apparently too cheap to buy a load of gravel for a mired-in parking lot used every day by the very students asked to contribute.

Harvard should either awake to the fact that the automobile is here to stay or also turn the Perkins lot into a yachting basin. Robert Bracken, 2L.