POETRY AND TIME

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Poetry annihilates Time: we all know that, but it happens only rarely, and when it does a historian must salute.

Not the least arresting achievement of the late T. S. Eliot '10 will always be--to quote this morning's (Jan. 5) CRIMSON--that "as an undergraduate he lived in Eliot House" twenty-odd years before the place was built.

But then, how could he have been so disillusioned with mankind?

Say, what Gen. Ed. courses did he take? Robert Lee Wolff '36   Professor of History

"Time future is contained in time past."   T. S. E.