THE HARVARD POWER TRUST

Political perversity in extreme form is evident in Representative Reardon's resolution to investigate Harvard's proposed contract to sell steam to the Rindge School. But plots return to plague the inventors, and the Representative's extraordinary ardor for preventing Harvard's undreamed aspirations to become a power trust will effect his own reputation rather than the University's.

The difficulty seems to center about some hot-air vents. It is natural that such a subject should come up in the course of human events. But its connection, other than the obvious verbal one, with members of the Legislature is obscure.

Loyal Harvard men will perhaps be moved by the accusation that the University in transferring other people's hot air in its pipes would be acting ultra vires. That would surely not be cricket; Lowell House would protest if others did not.

Prediction in such a situation is dangerous, but a probable outcome of the difficulty suggests itself. If the State Legislature monopolizes Greater Boston's supply of hot air in its discussion of the Reardon resolution, there will be nothing to transfer in the Harvard pipes and the whole subject can be dropped.