Education: Intellectual Brothels

One morning last week Harvard's students and professors were startled when they picked up their copies of the usually sober Crimson, found it flaming with big headlines and an editorial splashed all over the front page:

"Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this college. . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of...

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