To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Book of Proverbs (27:5) tells us, "Open rebuke is better than secret love," and this offers some comfort, however meagre, when one regards the ferocious and peevish attack of certain Deans upon the Class of 1961. Since, by the continual assertion of noted Deans and Officers at Registration, Harvard classes have been growing progressively more intelligent since about 1936, it is necessary to conclude that by 1961 the gap has doubtless become so great that Deans and others no longer have any real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions and prophetical calculations, which in this case so pitifully deceived them. It were better that they should look upon such things in which the Class of 1961 has excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." In stead of engaging in vain railings and obstinate goadings, the Administrators and Calculators should remind themselves of the Proverb, "Boast not to thyself of the morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (27:1) H.O.J. Brown '53