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...impression, which a reader of the CRIMSON might gather, can be illustrated by a quotation of a paragraph from the CRIMSON editorial. "Daily the University is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
...impression here conveyed is that these happenings have no channel through which they may reach the outside world as news. Yet those "happenings which affect the outside world", those "discoveries of Harvard scientiests" which are of interest to outsiders have been the subject of numbers of releases by this office to the public, as for instance Professor Shapley's announcement of the discovery of the center of the universe, or the acquisition of the Nelson letters by Widener Library. One hundred and twenty-one releases of Harvard news have been given to the press since October...
Daily the university is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
...word, there is no real reason why anyone should buy "Leffing Ges" unless he particularly wants to do so. Perhaps, told over the radio by their author these things affect the risibilities: in cold print they affect the stomach...