Report of Investigating Committee

The committee appointed several days ago by President Perkins, of the Junior Class, wish to report that they have looked into the public statement, made by an officer of the University, that the painting of the John Harvard statue was the work of a prominent member of the class of 1898, and that half the class knew the name of the man who did it.

The committee went to the source of this information and found that the man who said that he saw "a prominent member of the class of 1898" do the painting denies that there is any truth in the statement. Furthermore, we have as yet found no one that knows who did the painting.

The committee has not acted secretly in its investigation because it felt that it was through the aid of the undergraduates alone that anything could be done. If anything further is to be accomplished it can be only through the aid of the men who have some knowledge, however slight, of the affair.

Therefore the committee asks that every man who has any information whatever will give it to them, for they believe it to be the sentiment of the University that every man ought to do so, with the understanding that such information will be confidential.

B. H. HAYES, J. E. N. SHAW, CHARLES GRILK.