POLITICIAN

To the Editors of The CRIMSON:

FOLLOWING IS COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENT PUSEY. DEAR PRESIDENT PUSEY AS YOU MAY RECOLLECT I'M UP FOR ELECTION THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS, AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD LAUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE, SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL YOU AS INCONTESTABLY CLOSE-MOUNTED, I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASING THE TEXT OF THIS TELEGRAM TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON FOR PUBLICATION, YOURS I HOPE, AT THE FIRST MEETING NEXT YEAR OF THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS UNLESS, KIND FELLOW, YOU FIND IN THE INTERIM THAT YOU GOTTA GO.

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