IT was with no little surprise that we read in the Yale News of last Friday a letter purporting to have been written by a Harvard man to an acquaintance at Yale. The letter is published in full, names excepted, and is apparently a private one. The News must pardon us if we say that we do not consider it the legitimate province of a college paper to publish offers to bet any more than we would consider it proper for the News to sell pools officially, or to offer through the medium of its columns to give odds that their next issue will partake more of the character of the New York Clipper than the News of Friday. The fact that the recipient of a letter of this kind does not have good taste enough to withhold it from publication is no excuse for the lack of judgment of the editors of the News in allowing it to appear in print.