An Indignant Challenge.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It was with amazement and with a sense of incredulity that we learned that an open advocate of Bolshevism, who recently at the Tremont Temple enthusiastically advanced, amidst cheers, all the tenets of Messrs Trotzy and Lenine, namely, Mr. Wilfred Humphries, addressed a student audience in Emerson Hall on Wednesday evening.

It is out of the question to believe that the University authorities knowingly permitted open advocacy of the policies and principles of a government with which the United States is internally and externally at war. Although the apparent tacit approval of the University may be explained by inadvertence or lack of information concerning the insidiously subtle propaganda of the speaker involved, (who outdoes Mr. H. G. Wells in his own "rayon" in picturing the delights and perfection of Soviet Russia to which even such eminent, advocates of the cause as Miss Emma Goldman seem loath to return) we feel that it would be salutory to have those persons, who are apparently the instigators of this movement which is attempting to insinuate itself into the University life, openly to declare themselves.

If there is any number of persons in this University, who seriously contend that the social and economic theories at present in practice in Soviet Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions, and aims of this country, a frank and open statement from them to this effect would be welcome. F. P. MAGOUN, JR., 2G.   W. C. BOYDEN, JR., 2L.   S. C. WELCH 1G.   G. C. BARCLAY 1L.   G. A. BROWNELL 1L.