AFRO'S SERVICE

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

James K. Glassman's report (Blacks Hold Own Service For King) of the meeting Dean Glimp and I had with Jeffrey P. Howard about the Afro memorial service for Dr. King attributes to Dean Glimp and me a purpose we did not have. We in no way wished to discourage the Afro service. Our concern was with the problems of holding the service in an area where the privacy of the service might be difficult to insure. We did urge that the Afro service not be disruptive. We did not think it was imperative that the Afro services be held at some other time or at some other place.

Indeed I thought the Afro service was appropriate. The black students sought an integrity and privacy which I too sought. The service was a simple, beautiful and profoundly sincere tribute to the kind of man "who will not soon pass this way again." Archie Epps   Assistant Dean of Harvard College