There can be no doubt but that the following considerations advanced by the Yale News, for the edification of its readers, could be made to apply to a considerable extent, at very many of the colleges of this country. The News thus sermonizes : "There is a growing tendency among us to look too lightly upon extreme in drinking. The amount of evil which such a negative position can work in a short time is incalculable. It may not be well to shout loud and weak temperance projects, - that is far from the best way of bringing about the desired result. But if we would take a more positive stand, if we would all cease to regard with a smile the rehearsal of a man's loss of self respect, if the time should come when a man shall no longer consider that he is advancing himself in social esteem by allowing himself to forget his manliness, but that he is on the contrary making himself an object of pity, more good would be wrought than the best framed pledges and societies could hope for." It is notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life in as far as relates to pleasures of the cup. But intemperance, we rest assured, has always been as emphatically condemned by the college community as could be desired by the most ardent prohibitionist. That there has of late years been an observable tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public sentiment needs to be reinforced and strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand and active measures be taken to work a reform. That such a plan as that proposed by the Harvard Total Abstinence League is altogether the best, we are not yet convinced It is a very difficult matter for one to make up one's mind to a decisive stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total abstinence is preeminently a remedy for the cure of drunkards. The greatest influence on college men is the force of public opinion. And if there is a demand for such a movement as this, we believe it should direct its chief energies towards influencing public sentiment. That indeed, we are glad to see, is provided for in the scheme of the H. T. A. L. Lectures by Phillips Brooks and Doctor James will certainly be listened to with the greatest of interest and respect by the college ; and we have no doubt that in this the work of the society will be productive of nothing but good results.