IN its last number the Advocate appeared in a new light; no longer as the staid, conservative mentor of the Harvard press, now crying out against an abuse already ended, and now giving a decided opinion on a question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What can we do without the calm, monotonous pleasure of a fortnightly Advocate? Henceforth we must seek relief from the Crimson's blood-curdling sensationalism and the Lampoon's Phoenix witticisms in the "???" editorials and elective pamphlet expositions of the Echo. Mental rest cannot be obtained from the perusal of a paper bristling with glass-pigtail similes and mathematical vagaries. No! Our old friend has changed. When the Advocate read Captain Brandegee's statement of facts in the last Crimson, 'it determined at once to have an opinion. And since it was to have an opinion on one thing, it might as well have an opinion on every thing. Besides, it thought it would be a good thing to try being original once, at any rate. So it got up a burlesque on a burlesque, and, to keep up to this standard, brought out an abridged version of the Crimson Dictionary (See Crimson, Vol. XVI. No. 1). Then it induced its item editor to get an inspiration. We congratulate "our esteemed cotemporary" on the success of this inspiration. An item editor who can successfully alliterate and expose lies, too, has a great future before him, and so has his paper. Deprecating as we do this sudden misfortune which has come upon us, we wish to propose a remedy, namely, that the Echo and Advocate make an agreement by which the former shall confine itself to the bulletin board, religious canvassing, and "lies by the day or week;" and the latter shall assume the fearful responsibility of explaining the elective pamphlet in one-third of its pages, and shall endeavor to make the remaining two-thirds readable by securing the advance sheets of the Crimson's serials. If this last proves impracticable, the space might be filled up by attacks on the Crimson and by the effusions of Freshman contributors. We are sure that if this system were adopted, our esteemed cotemporaries would charm their readers by the vigor it not the elegance of their style and contents.