The New York papers have commented on the recent disturbances at Princeton in a way that must have made poor Dr. McCosh weep. In spite of the attempts of the doctor to make the Princeton students good and orthodox, the New York Times probably has some good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional suspensions have fallen short of the object aimed at, and even stronger discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon the quiet village people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When the villagers presumed to protest and grumble, punishment fell upon them. The midnight rowdyism of the collegians was suffered in silence, howsoever many terrors attached, but the outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down by petty rules and regulations that are more fitted for a primary school than for a college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back and give the Princeton students the liberty and freedom that we have here. We think that then disturbances such as have troubled the quiet people of Princeton lately would become as rare as they are in Cambridge.