HARVARD MATURITY

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

College is the most opportune time of any man's life if he is able to attend a well-known institution. Harvard is such a place. America's history may be traced back for many years and it will be found that many of the most important men in the United States government attended the school founded by John Harvard. However, I am very sorry to say, it is nothing compared to what it used to be.

Years ago Harvard University was known around the world as being "a rich man's school." Just recently, to my astonishment, I was told by one of Harvard's "finest" that more than seventy-five percent of the present students are attending school on loans which they repay after graduation. This seems to me to be very beneficial to the students, because it teaches them perseverance. But, could you tell me what makes them act in the way they do?

I walk through the Yard a few evenings each week, and to my astonishment I see supposedly well composed students making complete fools of themselves. One instance is the throwing of bags full of water from upper dormitory windows upon the passers-by beneath.

Are these the future leaders of America? I should hope not.

How would you like our economic system to be controlled by such hoodlums as these? Or would you like to have our representative to the United Nations be an ex-panty-raider?

Harvard students possess the brains, no doubt about that. But they should wake up to the fact that they are living in a civilized world, and they should possess a bit of common sense and have some respect for the rights of others who are trying their hardest to get along peacefully in this city. Thomas C. Haley