CROOK CORRECTS

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Saturday CRIMSON correctly reported that Harvard College Interhouse would be discontinued in Lehman Hall on March 18, 1969. The term "interhouse" is an accounting expression which allows a student on board contract to charge his meal in Dudley House (to the value of his contract lunch) to the Food Services Department. Discontinuation of interhouse does not imply the prohibition of Harvard College members who wish to pay cash for their lunch in Dudley. This move is the first in a slow but essential lunch.

The same issue of the CRIMSON incorrectly reported that students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences would be denied the privilege of lunch in the Dudley Dining Hall. No such decision has been made by me or anybody else. It is true that the dining hall was not intended to serve a large number of graduate students. Members of Dudley House, students in the University Extension Program, Radcliffe students and officers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were the group for which priorities were established in the financing of and the planning for Lehman Hall. The problem now is not one of mix--graduate students are valuable and cherished users of the dining hall. The problem not is one of scale: there are simply too many people trying to occupy the room between the hours from eleven to two.

Members of Dudley House do not wish to exclude any members of our community. We do need to find cooperation of all the groups involved. I hope that discussions which all concerned during the next few weeks will lead to some solutions. I do not see how we can avoid some pain in the process. Thomas E. Crooks   Master, Dudley House