Crimson Suspends Publication

The Harvard Crimson suspends publication with this Commencement issue, to return only when Harvard is once again a liberal arts college. This announcement has been for a long time inevitable. In a program that is primarily one of war training there is little time to publish the Crimson; indeed, there is small place for it in a college of uniforms. The need of news reporting remains, and this function will be performed by the Harvard Service News.

The Harvard that was had need of a Crimson. Now the predominantly undergraduate body is gone, and with it the ned for an outlet of student opinion, and for news of leisurely activities. The Service News will cover all the Army and Navy schools and also the civilian students, but it will not be a Crimson. There will be no editorial policy, and there may be heavy censorship by the services. With many different contributors and little time for editing by the small staff, literary standards must surely be lowered. Such sacrifices are the price of wartime news.

Final authority in all matters has been turned over by the former student editors to a Graduate Board. This has been done to maintain the continuity of the paper and to keep it from becoming a simple organ of the services or the University.

We believe that the Crimson has had a unique and necessary role at Harvard. This role has become obsolete with war, but we pledge ourselves that with the rebuilding of the College will come a new Crimson dedicated to the same function as the old.