Advantageously Placed

(The CRIMSON invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I am not a Catholic, but neither-- thank God--am I a Mason, and hence, I think, I am very advantageously placed for replying to the preposterous emission in your Friday issue. Oddly enough your correspondent seems to have hit upon the answer to his own conundrum, without, of course, being able to recognize it when he saw it. If Catholics are sportsmen enough to become members or captains of the athletic teams, and gentlemen enough to be made class-day marshals, they are certain of a warm standing-welcome from all their (normal) fellow undergraduates. While as far as the faculty are concerned (being mostly reasonable men) all they are likey to demand in addition--since fortunately the University is no longer fettered by that rather unpleasant creed to which our worthy Founder subscribed--is that Catholics, in common with other people, maintain the required standards of scholarship and discipline. As for Catholic students having "banded together," and having "even a club", I fail to discern that it is one iota more sinister than the activities of the Masonic Club, or of the Menorah Society for that matter.

I can't see that anything more need be said. As a matter of fact, in view of the gratifying prevalence of sanity at this seat of learning, I suppose that nothing need really have been said at all. I am, however, unable to deny myself the pleasure of inquiring whether Mr. Sinclair's absence from the Harvard-Yale football games posterior to 1916 was intended as a protest against the insidious spread of "Romanism" among our players? I am-- Very Sincerely   HUGH WHITNEY '25.