Five Alumni Express Disapproval Of Graffito in Quincy Dining Room

Five alumni have field angry protests against the artistic quality of the graffito which decorates the main dining room in Quincy House.

Letters from outraged alumni appearing in the November 28 edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin demanded an explanation for what William C. Colemon '05 termed "the absurdity of placing this mural in Quincy House."

"There is no proper definition of art that might appropriately be applied to this mural," Coleman claimed. He criticized the "revolutionary methods" adopted in creating the graffito as "completely false to nature," and added, "The result is not art. It is nonsensical."

"Harvard should be ashamed," asserted Robert O. Muller '34, who compared the graffito unfavorably with designs made in desk grooves by bored students "during some of the lesser lectures."

Alumnus Wonders About Indigestion

"We except leadership of Harvard; but what price leadership?" Muller inquired, nothing that "the art world moves fast and this sort of this sort of thing is dated as as created."

Distaste for the graffito was graffito also expressed by Gordon G. Sampson '10, who offered his sympathy to the students forced to look at the mural while eating. "I'd like to see a record of indigestion cases among students eating here as compared to those eating elsewhere," he commented.

Sampson and Bernard A. Merrian '09, agreed that the graffito resembled "the doodling of inmates in a mental hospital." According to Merrian, the mural "belongs in an abnormal psychology clinic."

In the second letter which he has written to the Bulletin to condemn the graffito, Robert L. Buell '19 suggested that Quincy House residents be invited to vote as to whether they wish the mural to remain or to be painted out.

Distaste for the graffito was graffito also expressed by Gordon G. Sampson '10, who offered his sympathy to the students forced to look at the mural while eating. "I'd like to see a record of indigestion cases among students eating here as compared to those eating elsewhere," he commented.

Sampson and Bernard A. Merrian '09, agreed that the graffito resembled "the doodling of inmates in a mental hospital." According to Merrian, the mural "belongs in an abnormal psychology clinic."

In the second letter which he has written to the Bulletin to condemn the graffito, Robert L. Buell '19 suggested that Quincy House residents be invited to vote as to whether they wish the mural to remain or to be painted out.