CONFIDENTIAL CRITICISM

The comments of the Alumni Bulletin on the CRIMSON's "Confidential Guide" recognize and appreciate the Guide's purpose in so far as they realize that it was intended to aid undergraduates who wish information on college courses beyond what they can find in official University publications. The Bulletin, however, when it criticizes the estimate of courses as "the unsupported say so of an undergraduate editor", has failed to grasp the spirit in which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from the introduction to the Guide in the CRIMSON of September 28: "Each opinion printed is the honest reaction of an individual of normal intelligence to a particular subject and its manner of presentation. It pretends to nothing else." The general favorable reaction to the Guide among the undergraduates in the College is, after all, the CRIMSON's best justification for its "innovation in undergraduate journalism."