WHATEVER else the Harvard Echo may be, it is at least a legitimate journalistic enterprise, having some title to be called a representative paper. We are sorry that we cannot say as much of the Harvard Register. As long as Mr. Moses King confined himself to his proper sphere, the publication of guide-books, we refrained from making any attack upon him, even when he had the effrontery to put Harvard College on the title-page of his books. But now that he has invited criticism by coming forward as the sole editor of an alleged Harvard paper, we feel that we owe it to those of our readers who may be unacquainted with his position in college to expose him in his true colors. Mr. King is not, in any proper sense of the word, a Harvard student. He has come here, as he himself has admitted in conversation, as a business enterprise, because the name of Harvard has a certain pecuniary value connected with it. He has occupied most of his time since he has been here, not in his studies, but in compiling and publishing guide-books, - very estimable works in their way, but showing conclusively that the writer's literary ability is extremely slim. The idea of Mr. King's being able to represent Harvard College as the editor of a paper is scouted by all intelligent students. He merely uses his nominal connection with the College as a stalking-horse to conceal the true character of this new enterprise, which is simply a financial speculation got up by Mr. Moses King for his own sole benefit. The array of articles from members of the Faculty which he has obtained for his first number shows that he has been very successful, for the present at least, in using them as a cat's paw to pull his chestnuts out of the fire; but we hope and believe that his contributors will be undeceived before long. One word more, to avoid misapprehension. We suppose that Mr. Moses King will say that we are opposed to him because he is the editor of a rival paper, and because he is poor and is trying to work his way through college. We wish to say, therefore, that we do not expect to be injured in the least by the Harvard Register; and, secondly, that we have good reason for believing, from the letter of a reliable correspondent published in another column, as well as from other sources, that Mr. King is not a poor student who is working his way through college. Even if he were, however, he would have no business to do so in the role which he has chosen. No one has more respect than we have for those who support themselves through college in a legitimate way. The member of '79 who supported himself for two years by selling books was thoroughly respected by all who knew him, and any slur cast upon him would have been resented by every decent man. For Mr. Moses King, however, we have no respect, and we feel sure that public opinion is with us. In the name of the students of Harvard College we repudiate him and his Register.