A TEMPEST IN A NEWSPAPER TEAPOT

The action of the Corporation in shifting the place of Mrs. Skeffington's speech of Tuesday evening from Emerson Hall to the Union has received some comment, more or less hysterical, from a few Boston newspapers.

It has been the traditional and iron-clad policy of the Corporation to allow no propagandist to speak in a College building. Mrs. Skeffington is considered a propagandist. In accordance with a rule established some years before she came to this country, a rule established entirely independent of Ireland or England or the war, the place of her address was shifted to the Union. The latter is the customary meeting place of the University, where all opinions may be voiced unofficially.

The action of the Corporation had no allusion to Mrs. Skeffington. Her address suffered, if it suffered at all, from a ruling which would apply equally to an Anglophile as to an Anglophobe address. Mrs. Skeffington's reception was proof enough of the rigid impartiality of Harvard's intellectual interests.