--And On the Other

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The author of Wednesday's editorial on "Military and Naval Sciences" must have spent a sleepless Tuesday night. He does not seem to mind the R.O.T.C. units if there are enough bloodthirsty cut-throats in the student body to fill the quota of the courses, but he insists that the University should not be tricked by the Government into allowing the required four courses to count for the degree. Such militarism dropped in the yard is subversive to the lefty, and liberal standards of the University. Such is his lament.

But when the day comes that Harvard becomes so narrow that it cannot include within its curriculum a few courses in the art of national preservation, Harvard had better cease to exist as a national institution, or as an institution of any kind. A Harvard diploma is a wonderful thing for a job seeker to wave under the nose of an employer, but it will not turn aside enemy gunfire, or protect the "guts" or "lack of guts" from an enemy bayonet. Perhaps, the author of the editorial is quite sure that he will never face an enemy bayonet. Such is his privilege. But I wish to suggest to him and his kind that they make a thorough study of the condition of our army and navy before they criticize the training of reserve officers for our defense forces by any means whatsoever. G. T. Skinner '36.