Concerning an "Excellent" Editorial

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

We should like to reply to that most excellent editorial on the "innocuous bit of rhetoric" written by the students of Berlin University.

In the first place we must remember that, being Germans, they could not possibly be gifted with the intelligence of Harvard men.

The editor asks: "Has the University of Berlin heard no word of the Disarmament Conference?" We would ask the editor if he has ever heard of the conference at the Hague, which could hardly be said to have made an end of war. We would ask the editor what kind of a peace he expects of this proposed farce to be enacted at Washington. To be sure our President has told us they shall try to make war impossible. But he would have us remember that wars are bound to continue. Mr. Harding would like to have peace, but it is not possible today. Perhaps tomorrow--or at least the day after tomorrow.

But aside from the practical side of the question, which we shall now leave to be settled conclusively by the editors, we cannot imagine a more ungenerous, ungentlemanly reply on the part of one student body to another. To be sure it is apt to be so when college boys answer college men. But from such an enlightened, progressive organ as the CRIMSON we expected something more than mere cultured rowdyism.

The students of Berlin University wrote to the Liberal Club in a spirit of genuine sincerity. They spoke as the youth of one country to that of another, realizing that now is the time for concerted action if we are ever to prevent another wholesale slaughter of the world's young men. They are aware that pink teas for antiquated diplomats and admirals can be of no avail.

But we will have no commerce with the spirit of fraternity, not even when it shows a "certain unconscious humor." For we are true liberals. Respectfully,   EDWIN SEAVER '22.   E. PINCKNEY GREENE JR. 1S.A. October 3, 1921.