Tutorial Comments Continued

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The editorial in the Crimson of February 10 on the proposals of the Alumni Section of the National Student League shows a commendable concern over the social utility of educational projects. "Maintaining 'free courses in graduate schools," says the editor, "would undoubtedly support a certain number of incompetent persons who would never be of use to society." In view of the conspicuous usefulness to society not only of graduate schools, but of almost all enterprises in higher education, such as liberal arts colleges, tutorial systems, houses, and so forth, and of the practically infallible guarantee of value to society that ability to pay tution fees confers on the wards of these institutions, such a step as that proposed by the N.S.L. would, indeed, be highly dubious. To ask society to take a chance on indigent alumni, when it has all it can do to support such obviously indispensable groups as the CRIMSON Editorial Board, is willful and perverse. H. N. Doughty, Jr.