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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I presume that Mr. E. Waldo Long in his letter to the Transcript, still counts himself among those who excuse their acts on the grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults" and regards his "editorial" precisely as the students of Harvard regard it: merely a collection of meaningless invective abuse.

And no doubt Mr. Long himself would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener.

The need of 1917 melodramatic chauvinism has vanished with the peace of 1918, and the binding of international good-will has rendered unnecessary any further reminders of war-time animosity. If the Sargent murals ever had a purpose, it has been rendered a nullity by universal misconception and unsatisfied curiosity. J. H. Selvidge '31.