To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

A recent correspondent in your paper has sustained with vigor the thesis that "the elimination of these discriminatory clauses voluntarily would make it possible for justice and reason to be exercised by the clubs and club-men. It would return the clubs to a position where an intellectually honest person could join them without qualms."

You captioned this letter, "Disagrees With Mr. Traiu." That was not accurate. There is no disagreement. Your correspondent began by granting the only two points made in my previous letter. His discovery that "dropping the discriminatory causes would return Harvard to a position where it could be respected as intellectually just and honest" seemed to me hardly worth making, since I understand that out of seventy undergraduate organizations only the SAE has such a specification, and the SAE is apparently getting rid of theirs. In effect, there aren't any discrimination clauses.

That is one of the odder aspects of the Student Council's campaign to abolish the tyranny of these clauses. John P. C. Train '50