THE MAIL

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial on English 72 in Saturday's issue has encouraged me to submit the following statistics, carefully compiled from a typical lecture in Professor Lowes' other undergraduate course, English 1.

Twenty-one times in the course of the hour, the lecturer expressed his regret that time did not permit him to explain various points; he would not--so he said--spoil the students' pleasure of finding out those things for himself, nor would he waste their time and his.

Twenty-nine times the lecturer paused to express his conviction that the passage under discussion showed conclusively that Chaucer was familiar with such-and-such a minor medieval work.

Three times the lecturer apologized for having left his references at home.

To point a moral, gentlemen, would be to waste your time and mine.

(Name withheld by request.)