AN event of interest to all undergraduates is the expulsion of the editor of a college paper by the Faculty of the College of the City of New York for the free expression of opinion with regard to the mode of instruction in oratory. It is a sign, not of strength, but of weakness, in a faculty, if it is obliged to expel students for expressing obnoxious opinions. Either these opinions are well-grounded, or they are not. If they are, is a student to be punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack of charity to instructors must be expected from them. But older people have once been young themselves, and for them to punish with such severity a fault that is more a hopeful than a bad sign in a student, is certainly unwise, if not criminal.

If, in the light of this occurrence, we look at our own University, we cannot but congratulate ourselves that we have a Faculty that knows how to appreciate the independence of students. An event like that in New York is an impossibility in Cambridge.