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To the Editor of the Crimson:

I have just read, in today's (Saturday's) Crimson, your editorial about the necessity of having a magazine which might publish lectures given at Harvard. I want to congratulate you very much on your proposal.

May I point out that there exists, in France, the "Revue des Courset Conferences" which does exactly what you have in mind?

I have always thought that it is very desirable to print the most important lectures delivered at the University, and I should like to suggest that the printing of lectures would be a great step in bringing together the two fields of activity: research and teaching, as well as in solving the superficial conflict arising from the two tasks of a University professor. Moreover, is it not worth stressing the fact that University teaching--differing in this respect from College instruction--ought to be accompanied by research? This, however, is not always possible on account of the heavy teaching load that a University professor carried. But would it not be advisable to lighten the burden of class-room instruction so that there might be more opportunity for original research? Marcel Francon.