AS the College year draws to an end, there is one matter in connection with undergraduate journalism that we wish definitely to comment upon, once for all. At the time when the Yale papers chose to "excommunicate" the Acta Columbiana, we could not sympathize with their hasty and discourteous action; but so long as there was a doubt, we preferred to make no editorial allusion to the affair. But the doubt exists no longer. The Yale papers stand convicted before the college world of a breach of courtesy toward an exchange whose merits would seem to entitle it to the highest consideration. Because "Smintheus" had satirized the Record in the Acta's columns, the edict of Yale's wrath was pronounced against it. We regret that "Smintheus" should have indulged in personalities. But before we even settle the justifiability of the satire that thus uncorked the editorial spleen, let us ask if the Record's and the Courant's attitude toward "Smintheus" has been pleasant or gentlemanly. In view of the uncomplimentary epithets (which we do not care to repeat) that have been freely used by the Record and the Courant, we do not think that complaints, least of all violent denunciations, come from them with very good grace. In connection with this subject, we cannot forbear mentioning a pleasant private note which we have received from "Smintheus," which we are not at liberty to print, - a note which proclaims him as much a gentleman as the efforts of his defamers proclaim them the opposite. The author of "Heliotrope" and "A Hopeless Case," to say nothing of his witty satires, cannot but have a future before him that will be the best answer to the abuse of the Yale editors.