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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

In his delightful book "American Soundings," J. St. Loe Strackly, says that on his visit to Harvard last year "the impression was that of surety youth." His comment on Harvard is all favorable with this possible exception." He says his student hosts at the Harvard Union were resplendent in "immaculate white waistcoats and dinner jackets of the very latest cut." Is it not a sartorial sin at Harvard to combine a white waistcoat with a dinner jacket? To old-fashioned chaps this is as irregular as russet colored shoes worn with evening dress. How about it? AN OLD GRAD.

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