BOOTLEGGING OF NOTES SCORED BY GREENOUGH

"Intellectual bootlegging" was the characterization which Dean C. N. Greenough '98 applied to the sale of printed notes for University courses in a conversation with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon.

The question, which has occasioned considerable controversy in the past, was reopened by a statement of Dr. Kenneth Merk in a History 32 lecture yesterday. Dr. Merk issued a warning to the effect that students selling notes would be subject to disciplinary action by the Dean's Office. He hinted at the possible expulsion from the University of any offender, and he referred to the case in the Law School last year when an injunction was obtained restraining the sale of notes on certain Law School lectures.

Dean Greenough, in commenting upon Dr. Merk's statement, said: "The Dean's Office has always disapproved of the use of printed notes. If a student were reported to me for selling notes on the reading or lectures in a University course, I should certainly bring his case up for disciplinary action.

"My objection to the custom is not primarily because of the false grade that a student may get from using printed notes, although that is an important factor. I am considering chiefly the injury that the student is doing to himself. The object of a college education is the development of mental muscle. If Jones lifts the dumbbell, Smith's muscle is not strengthened. Similarly, if Smith passes an examina-