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Indiscriminate Charity Objectionable.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

While appreciating the charitable motives of the gentlemen who distribute neckties, etc., to the clamoring mockers in Mt. Auburn street, those of us whose studies are interrupted by the pandemonium cannot help feeling that such philanthropy is misplaced, and that the above-mentioned ties would have looked better in the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection. These thoughtless fairy god-fathers are not only adding to the predatory insolence of their parasites, but are seriously interfering with their 'neighbors' chances of two C's and a D at the finals. T. NELSON '18.   W. BURRY, JR., '18.

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