1919 Entertainment Criticised.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:--

Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic inspiration by the manner of the singers. May a Freshman suggest that such a performance is hardly consistent with the patriotic sentiments of the ordinary man, to say nothing of the traditions and ideals that Harvard is supposed to possess? R. H. HAMMOND '19.