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Recently Mayor Lyons proposed to President Conant that the University "contribute" $100,000 a year to the city because of the "services" Cambridge renders. President Conant's answer to this proposal, made public today, parries with beautiful logic and an extremely facile pen Mayor Lyons' request. The answer is, "No." And the President has set forth a justification of Harvard's refusal that is little short of classic. It is perhaps a Harvard Bill of Rights; it takes a firm stand on the question of taxation...
...task of refusing Mayor Lyons' request was made considerably more difficult by the role which that worthy chose to assume--that of requesting a contribution, rather than demanding a tax provision. This has put Harvard somewhat on the defensive, and may lay it open in the future to accusations of "failing" the city. Of course, Cambridge's financial condition may indeed be due to decreased tax income. So says the Mayor. But perhaps it is more attributable to an often extremely uneconomical city government. In either case, Harvard cannot be expected to ameliorate the deficit unless it wishes to function...
...statement last night emphasized its policy of "discounting loose generalizations and vague formulae." In an attack on canned answers the statement said, "Pre-digested material, steadily recurring in a set of blue-books, is not difficult to detect, and a deliberate effort to deal with it will be made...
Attacking the tutoring schools, Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, said last night that the examinations, as made out by a staff committee, were especially designed to favor the student who does his own work...
...first time in more than ten years Harvard has decided to send a full team to the National Intercollegiate golf tournament to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, next month. Perhaps it was the sweep which the Crimson link-men made in the Easterns which prompted this move, but it is certain that they deserve to be there because their entry will be a strong one. The Hoddermen suffered four 5 to 4 defeats this spring, and it was only over the last weekend that they reached their peak...