A Tale of Two Jameses

To the editors:

I have a question about the article "The First 100 years" (Jan. 24). It says on page 10 that Henry James was a former president of The Crimson.

To my knowledge, Henry James the novelist never attended Harvard College, and his only formal education was a brief stint at Harvard Law School when he was 19. (In 1899, when he graduated from college, according to the article, he was 56.) Were law students involved with The Crimson at that time, or is this a different Henry James you're talking about? HILLARY N. STEVENS '98   Jan. 30, 1998

The editors respond: Although graduate students have worked for The Crimson, the novelist Henry James was not a president of the newspaper. Another man with the same name held the position.