Tolerance Within The Ivy Walls

To the Editors of The Crimson:

I would like publicly to deplore the behavior last Tuesday of several members of the Harvard community. A Christian evangelist had stationed himself in front of Widener and was arguing his system of beliefs with several members of the crowd gathered around him. Another group arrived and began to ridicule this man's clothing and manner of speaking and otherwise to heckle him.

I am not a fundamentalist Christian, yet I resents the lack of tolerance these students showed this man, and the puerile means with which they displayed it. Harvard has been built on the principles of open discussion and tolerance of belief. If there bocklers are not secure enough in their own convictions to argue logically with someone who looks at things differently, they have no business "In the company of learned men." Timothy Fleck `86