Communication

(The Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I have noted with interest the notice given in your columns and elsewhere to the increase in intellectual activity at other colleges. To me the attitude of the CRIMSON has seemed unnecessarily critical. Even if the movement is superficial, it is valuable in itself and as an index of something deeper. But at present we know little about it. Heywood Broun commends it, and Harvard college immediately becomes occipital. Our attitude seems to indicate either fear or contempt of the new tendency. It certainly indicates insularity and self-satisfaction.

Why cannot the CRIMSON devote a column to the exchange of ideas with the other colleges? Is it because we have nothing to exchange? I thing not, Our present attitude towards other colleges might easily show more intelligent sympathy and less narrow-minded ridicule. JOHN L. SWAYZE JR. '25 April 7, 1922.