Well, Sir?

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Mr. William Jennings Bryan, who spoke twice at the University on Friday may not be "personally vindictive," but there is little doubt that he is intellectually treacherous and browbeats his opponents when he is cornered by turning aside their queries and making them appear ridiculous. I quote from a Boston paper the following incident typical of his tricks of underhanded evasion:

"Bryan's colloquey at Brown resulted from his failure to answer a question submitted by George E. Cassidy of the class of 1926. The question was: 'Isn't it possible that there may be a philosophy gained by evolutionary thinking which presents a worship and reverence for future generations as an ideal and looks toward the development of Heaven upon earth through the use of science: and is not this ideal a fine and worthy one, capable of producing an equally noble standard of morality?'

"Apparently stunned by the somewhat hypothetical question, the Commoner asked that it be repeated. This was done.

"Bryan turned away and then again facing the student body said: 'Ladies and gentlemen: I've come a long way to address you students at Brown, but I shall certainly have to retire before this magnificent, bubbling fountain of wisdom on my right.' That was the end." Frederick deW. Pingree ocC.