No Whitewash

We must, however, take issue with the indictments contained in his communication. It brief, the Bulletin cannot yet retract anything it said in the editorial referred to, although proof to the contrary will lead to a frank apology. But we must have proof of some of the rather sensational statements Mr. Kreger makes. This spectre of graduate interference with Harvard athletics should either be put where the spotlight will shine on it or be pushed into the wings and kept there. . . . These are serious charges which Mr. Kreger makes and he should substantiate them. Perhaps he will be willing to give the names of the men who did not deserve seats in the shells and also of those who should have been in their places.

Mr. Kreger insinuates that the editorial already mentioned was "a partisan attempt to 'whitewash' the acts of the demised, but not lamented, rowing committee." The writer of the editorial had never discussed, directly or indirectly, with anyone who had ever served on the rowing committee, the subject of graduate interference, and no one who has ever been a member of the committee knew about the editorial until it was printed. If there was any whitewashing, no one ever connected with the rowing committee asked to have it done. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Jan. 2.