The Post came out yesterday morning with a scathing editorial on "Uncivilized Collegiates." We quote the following as a sample of the Post editor's views on the subject: "In the more high-toned current items of crime the college student occupies a conspicuous place, and there are many pranks of his that deserve to come under this head which are called by a milder name, because a college student is supposed to be incapable of crime - he merely breaks the laws." Again he says that a tendency to lawlessness has been observed at Harvard, Yale, etc., within a very recent period. We should be pleased to know in what manner Harvard students, for instance, have been guilty of any lawlessness during, say, the last five or six months. Harvard students have never enjoyed a better reputation than at the present time, and so far this year have been free from any of that rowdyism which, we are sorry to admit, has characterized the actions of some in previous years. The Post man goes on to say that students in colleges have left behind them that careful surveillance which as boys curbed their restlessness and "bumptiousness." "Bumptiousness" is a good word, and we feel sorry to call forth the powers of invective and sarcasm of the Post man who copyrighted it, by asking what it means. But, nevertheless, we do ask, and hope soon to be informed.
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