Elimination of Geography Meets Disapproval

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Although I had hoped for an explanatory statement from the College concerning the demise of the Geography Department, I now write not only in contention with the move but also to elicit some comment from those who made it.

Geography is important. Our recent World War demonstrated that to this generation. Geography as a science of the world's spatial relationships and patterns of human development is essential to the "Education for Citizenship" that many modern educators expound as the true aim of the Liberal Arts College.

I can only feel that the removal of the department is contrary to Harvard's General Education program and the newly organized, though less publicized, Regional Studies Plan, and to the best interests of Harvard in general. Before our valuable staff in the department takes leave of us, the edict should be carefully reconsidered. Peter B. Roll '48