Communication

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:--

An editorial appeared in the last issue of the Illustrated expressing an urgent wish that the "Widener Debaters" could be persuaded to hold forth elsewhere. With all due respect to the Illustrated, I do not believe that an editorial of protest published once will have any very concrete or lasting effect, and, accordingly I am writing this in the hopes, that the repetition of the idea and the fact that it will be presented to a larger number of undergraduates, will bear fruit.

The wish expressed by the Illustrated is a common one, and one in which I heartily agree, but what is the use of wishing it, or even of putting it in print, if no attempt is going to be made to enforce it? Is there to be set up a miniature Wilson administration with the undergraduate publications as its mouth piece to issue protests against the outrages to undergraduates, while the outrages continue?

There are certain noises which are inherent to the Library, I suppose, and which we will bear with, such as the musical notes of the steam pipes, the ceaseless tread of studious feet, or even the frequent invasions of murmuring visitors. But why not take radical steps, by means of new Library legislation, to suppress the alarming spread of the Forum to the precincts of the reading room? A. REEDER '16.