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Yesterday the CRIMSON had its mid-year initiation. An unclassified student, who has been in College since the first of the year, and who writes for a Boston paper on a space basis sent to his paper a story purporting to be about it that read like war news and that was untrue in many of its statements. As a matter of fact, no one was injured in any way, no one "needed a physician's attention," no one was "battered into submission"--in short the whole story was an exaggeration which would be passed by as ludicrous if it did not create a false impression in the minds of some of the paper's readers. A policy of verification of news from such sources would be only fair to everyone.

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