WHEN THE CRIMSON IS CENSORED

The CRIMSON can look forward to the threatening censorship of the daily press with considerable equanimity. While the slash of blue pencil and daub of India ink will make the pages of the Boston newspapers unreadable, the CRIMSON will still be able to print the news so that it will be clear and unmistakable to the undergraduate. Words with such deep military significance as "Crimson," "grades" and "deturs" will, of course, have to be omitted. Announcements in the courses on perspective, gas analysis, theory of design, class Martial, the canon (and fugue) and Bacon will no longer appear in the notice column. A mere glance at the Faculty will show how impossible it will be for many members to have their names in the front-page write-ups. Professors Baker, Post, Chase, Ropes, Lake, Graves, and Ford, for example, will have to be satisfied with temporary obscurity. What if the commissary officer should see Professor Frankfurter mentioned in the Law School notices, even though he knows that no one reads them? No longer will the glorious tales of athletic victories take place etymologically on Soldiers Field. Nor can the rank list be published.

But even with these omissions there should be no real difficulty in grasping such articles as the following, which might appear at any time: "Professor ----, whose activities in urging the members of his courses, ---- 12 and ---- 45, so much sought after by the students, to enlist in the ---- ---- ---- ----, was approaching his commodious rooms in ---- 15 ---- afternoon when a bomb was ---- nearby. It is thought that the cause was probably due to Professor ----'s well-known anti---- sympathies." Or this is not at all unlikely: "An emergency meeting of the ---- ---- for ---- in 60 Mount ---- ---- was raided last evening. ---- ---- was speaking when a missile in the form of a rotten ---- broke up the gathering and scattered the ----, who failed to turn the other ----." The dramatic interest and effect may even be considerably heightened in this way.

Congress and the War Department may do their worst. The censorship has no terrors for the CRIMSON.