Harvard Student Council Takes Hand in Princeton Controversy

Committees from the Student Councils of Harvard and Princeton may meet early next month to discuss relations between the two universities. A suggestion that such a conference be held was the key-note sent yesterday by L. F. Daley '27, President of the Student Council, to Joseph Prendergast, President of the Princeton Senior Council.

A special meeting of the Student Council was held yesterday to consider a reply to a letter from Prendergast to Daley that was mailed on the 9th before the official announcement of the break in athletic relations, but which was delayed in transit, and did not reach its destination until the 11th.

The Harvard letter follows:

I received your letter of the eighth on the eleventh, and in a meeting of the Student Council today, the following suggestion was made.

In answer to your letter, I wish to be absolutely frank. While the Student Council regrets the bad manners of the Lampoon editorial; and while the undergraduate body as a whole would never have expressed its feelings in this way, it is only fair to say that there has been a recognizable element of bad feeling in our football relations for some time.

This bad feeling, which we regret as much as you do, demands some sort of a frank and open discussion. Our Council suggests that a representative committee be appointed by each Council, to meet early next month to enter into a complete and frank discussion of the grievances of each university. We feel that only by such means can an ultimate and satisfactory agreement be made.

In any case, we hope that the act of your Board of Athletic Control in closing the Harvard relations will in no way affect the cooperation of our student bodies in those things in which we have always stood side by side. L. F. Daley '27,   President, Harvard Student Council.