WILLIAMS SCORES LAMPOON POLICY

Criticism evoked by the "Protest of the Masses" number is still raining upon the shoulders of Lampoon editors. H. M. Williams '85 president of the Associated Harvard Clubs wrote a letter to the board of the humorous publication, published for the first time in the supplement of the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, in which he pointed out that the derisive exploitation of Lampy's attack on the House Plan resulted in "far-reaching injury to the University through the destruction of much good will built up by the patient efforts of Harvard Clubs and alumni, East and West."

In addition to Williams' letter, Evan Hollister '97, chairman of the Associated Harvard Clubs' committee on service will mention unfavorably the attack on Harkness in the committee's report at the annual meeting of the clubs.

Hollister Evokes Graduate Opinion

In speaking of the Lampoon, Hollister will say: "A recent issue of the Lampoon contained a very discourteous and, in fact, offensive article, burlesquing the splendid gift of a large sum of money from a Yale graduate to Harvard College, to be used in financing and making possible the College House plan. While your committee does not approve of having the college undergraduate publications censored by the college authorities, at the same time we feel that such publications should be more largely influenced by public opinion, not only as held and exerted by the Harvard undergraduates, but also by the graduates of the University who have at heart its reputation and best interest.

"We also feel that if there is no such pronounced public opinion sufficient to deter future offenses against good taste and the fair name of Harvard, such an opinion among undergraduates and alumni should be created under stress of such an article as was recently published in the Lampoon and sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste, but also that they jeopardize their own personal reputation and standing in the College and in the eyes of its graduates."