Kaiser Responds

To the Editors of The Crimson:

Dr. [Benito] Rakower has been a familiar presence in Cambridge for many years now, and both President Bok and I have not infrequently been the objects of his epistolary displeasure. His maliciously false description of what I said in a lecture he did not attend reveals nothing but his ignorance of what I actually said and why I said it. ("Our President," September 25, 1986) As it happens, The Crimson already possesses a verbatim text of my remarks concerning the Watson matter on that occasion, and if you could ever possibly find the space to print it in its entirety, your readers would have a far better sense of the truth than Dr. Rakower's letter conveys. Walter J. Kaiser '54   Professor of English and Comparative Literature