Charges Misquotation

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Thursday, December 9, issue of the CRIMSON printed a report of a meeting of the Crimson Key Society that contained "quotes" of statements by Gerald Y. Genn '50 and myself. The so-called quotes grossly misrepresented what was actually said and caused a great deal of embarrassment to all concerned.

Genn did say that the Key Society should be financially independent of the Student Council, but he did not say, as your reporter quotes him, that the Council would otherwise have "domination bof all Key activities." The not-sosly dig at the Council, with which your imaginative reporter credits Genn, implies a conflict between the Key and the Council which does not exist.

Even more unfortunately, I am reported as having accused, note the "accused," Professor Ferry, Master of Winthrop House, of "personnal and emotional antagonism" in preventing an extra dance at Winthrop House over the Yale week-end. I said that Mr. Ferry had nothing but justifiable annoyance at the group with which he had to deal at the time. The quotes, furthermore, are those of your reporter and not in any case mine.

Quoting out of context is risky business, and in this particular case the speakers' original intent because twisted into an entirely different meaning. Bruce Harriman '50