IN our last issue we referred to our position in regard to the proposed N. E. Association. We stated then that the object of such an association was itself obscure, and criticised the undertaking to some extent. The Cornell Era, for November 3, refers to the first meeting of delegates to form the association in a style which, from its flippancy, we suspect to be intended for biting sarcasm. The Cornell paper revels in the fact that the meeting was a small one; it proceeds to say that the delegates wanted "some more noted college" to lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize in a peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above all Sects is Truth." The words quoted speak for themselves, and those who read them will probably agree that the position of Cornell in matters of justice and courtesy does not correspond with the position its crews have taken in the past two years at Saratoga.