Harvard: Russian View

Above is pictured "A meeting of the educational council of Harvard University, America's greatest university." At least that's what "Krokodil," the Russian humor magazine contends in its September 30 issue, on sale at almost no local news stands.

"Krokodils's" contention is that, according to the writing in the upper left hand of the cartoon, The leadership of the educational and scholarly activities of the institutions of higher learning in the United States falls more and more into the hands of the military." The magazine goes on to note that Harvard's educational council "contains ten generals."

In the cartoon, the pamphlet at the left is entitled "Military plans," while the one on the right proclaims "All out for war."

The entire back page of the September 30 "Krokodil" is devoted to color cartoons about Harvard, all aimed in the same direction. One entitled "Mathematics" shows a drill sergeant shouting "one, two, one, two" at a group of students carrying rifles.

The "Krokodil" conception of geography at Harvard consists of a group of men standing around while a general sticks maps marked "US" into a map of the world. "Law" depiets a lynching, while in "Literature," a group of students are shown throwing books by Goethe, Dreiser, Tolstoy, and Howard Fast into a fire.

Brigadier General W. Barton Leach, Story Professor of Law, and Brigadier General James Stevens Simmons, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, could not be reached for comment last night.