ROGERS CONSIDERS HOUSE PLAN AS "ARTIFICIAL"

Stating his opinion on the House Plan. Professor R. E. Rogers '09 when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon said that he considered it a definite break with the old Harvard tradition of responsible individualism.

"It is my belief that the Harvard. House Plan is the result of the despairing conviction that the college is disintegrating", declared Professor Rogers, who has recently been in the public eye through his pleas for snobbery.

"Now the element in college life which should and used to take care of this need is the fraternity. But unfortunately even this is of a decidedly mediocre tone at the present time. Formerly the properly organized and well run fraternity or club made for intimate contact between groups of students, for there he received interests within the college, and he derived a great deal of what is worth while in college from the close contact and intimate living with his 'crowd'.

"It is not entirely improbable", he continued, "that President Lowell is despairing of the old system, and that he is trying to impose from above, in the shape of the House Plan, what a good fraternity ought to do of itself. He may have come to the conclusion that the college men of this generation are not intelligent or mature or serious enough to be allowed the traditional Harvard liberty, and is trying what seems to me a desperate measure to introduce from above some measure of homogeneity and continuity into college life which undoubtedly does not today exist.

"Because of this, and because of the illiberal and paternalistic attitude with which it seems likely to be carried out. I consider it liable to be unsuccessful."