THE Advocate recently commented on the disturbances that occur too often in the Yard about midnight. A few men seem disposed to make "night higeous," and have succeeded admirably in the past; this is a little pleasantry that can be indulged in in perfect safety, and yet it is directly disagreeable to a good many quiet students, and we think the men themselves would feel indignant if treated in the same way. Indirectly it may do more mischief, and lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious stimulant has occurred, and must of necessity occur, until the wine-press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit of coming home yelling.
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