EVERY week the Boston papers kindly furnish for the delectation of their readers choice bits of news which are designated in their columns by the heading, "Harvard University Notes." Portions of these "notes" are copied directly from the brevity columns of the College papers, and in as much as they are simple statements of College events, are correct, but the remaining are either creations of a fertile brain or slight events wrought up in such a marvellous manner as to show that the imagination of the writer was drawn upon to a dangerous extent.

It is this latter class which particularly delights the credulous inhabitants of Boston, who, though they are not as a general rule inclined to place implicit belief in newspaper statements, still are perfectly willing to accept as truth any statement concerning college or collegians, and the more absurd and outrageous it is the better are they pleased.

The writers to newspapers, therefore, in order to cater to this feeling, from time to time regale the public with such accounts as are calculated to make us appear in the light either of fools or "roughs." The late fire in Hollis was a good subject, and they did not fail to take advantage of it; consequently a number of squibs went the rounds of the Boston papers, all tending to show the peculiar brilliancy the students here possess. It was stated that the students carefully carried down stairs every article of bedding, while they with equal care threw crockery ware and mirrors out of windows. One would naturally suppose that this remark, which died years ago through old age and inanity, would have been allowed to rest in peace. This is only an unimportant one of many instances, and if they were all as harmless as this no great offence need be taken (although it must be rather disgusting to students to be held up to the public as entirely lacking in common-sense); but when the zeal of a reporter to supply news gets the better of his discretion, and he indulges in personalities and dispenses information which neither concerns him nor the public at large, then it becomes time for a vigorous remonstrance.

If these writers are so devoid of sense as not to know that such publications are very distasteful to students, they should be made aware of the fact by a more open expression of disapprobation, and by the exclusion of them from their college scenes and pleasures, of which no report at all is preferable to a travesty.