WE were much surprised to learn that an impression has spread to some extent among graduates that the columns of the Magenta are not open to them. This we understand has been inferred from the style of our heading, which says that the paper "is published by the students of. Harvard College." Now, publishing a paper is a far different thing from contributing to it, and this wording was never meant to preclude contributions on pertinent subjects from outsiders, particularly from graduates of the College.

To remove an impression which would work us so much ill, we will frankly say that nothing so cheers the editor's heart as any interest shown by the alumni in the College press.

We may as well take this occasion to renew our thanks to our undergraduate contributors, and to bespeak their support in the future. We have been pleased to notice increasing contributions from Freshmen, many of which, however, the character of the subject or the looseness of expression prevents us from publishing. A little more care in composition, in order not to conceal the real thought of an article under a multiplicity of words, would greatly improve the majority of Freshman contributions. Let them not think us ungrateful or hypercritical, but let them persevere in their kind efforts.