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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
To your wholly admirable editorial on "White Inclemency" may I add a few words of clarification. Massachusetts law which bans discrimination in all public and publicly-assisted housing is not, as you suggest, entirely silent on the discriminatory practices of rooming house owners.
All rooming houses taking in five or more lodgers, not members of the family, are required to be licensed. Such licensing places them within the category of lodging or guest houses which are prohibited by the Public Accomodation Law from refusing rooms to any person because of his religion, color or race except for good cause applicable to all persons.
Members of the Harvard community who suffer discrimination at the hands of rooming-house owners licensed by the City of Cambridge would be well advised to report the facts of such discrimination to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, 41 Tremont Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts. Walter C. Carrington '52 Commissioner
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