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The Editor of the CRIMSON:
I have been greatly troubled (and not only I, but also many of my acquaintances) by a single phrase in this morning's editorial on the new requirements for admission. In commending the proposed plan, the editorial notes that it helps to exclude from college a large unassimilable element, which includes "commuters". Now, thus to separate goats and sheep is most perturbing, especially since this classification is not zoological, but is based on a question of habitat.
Asido from this initial difficulty, what of the commuter (to drop our metaphor) who, changing his locale, comes to live at the college; or what of him that abandons dormitory-life for residence at home? Does the first become, tipso facto, "assimilated", and the second, vice versa?
These questions strike home, in my own case. For three years, I was a technical unassimilable: I lived at home. But this year, I moved to college quarters. Am I now assimilated? Or must I pass the rest of my life under a cloud as threatening as it is vague?
In other words, is the mind still its own place? F. Y. St. Clair, '26.
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