The Rising Tide

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I am rather surprised that the CRIMSON has not seen fit to comment on the proposed closing of Widener Library at six. Such a topic would seem to come under its sphere of action.

This astonishing piece of "economy" will deprive all undergraduates outside of the houses and most graduate students of the use of the library during the time most fit for study. And, in fact, the house libraries will be in no position to furnish the numerous copies of certain books required in the larger courses available previously in the main reading room. The stacks with much that is absolutely unprocurable in the house libraries will also be unavailable.

Surely it is a sad commentary on the supposed purpose of Harvard as an educational institution, that it can find a million for a useless and ugly chapel, but is too poverty stricken to keep open its library. Norton E. Long '32.