THE SERIOUS THESPIAN

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Although your editorial entitled Leda and the Schwald has been explained to us as a humorous appraisal of two legislative approaches to Harvard dramatics, I'd like to correct some impressions it may have made on those who did not get the joke.

The HDC has never stated that all personnel on its major shows will have to be graduates of the training program we intend to institute next fall; we simply assume that, with some exceptions, these graduates will be better qualified.... Persons who want to ignore our standards will be perfectly free to do so, but not on HDC time....

It would seem that discussion of the problem of theater at Harvard would bear more fruit if it contained more sense and less humor. John Poppy '57,   President,   Harvard Dramatic Club