The recent editorial on "hazing" in the Sunday Herald is in one sense encouraging. It shows that the drift of public sentiment in such matters is towards a greater reasonableness and fairness of judgment in the affairs of college students, and away from prejudice and summary condemnations. In this particular the effect of the expression of such liberal and tolerant views by the public press can do little but good. But that the special illustrations that the Herald uses in order to enforce its meaning are really well-chosen and just is very doubtful. Both the Trinity and the Bowdoin affairs seem to have been aggravated cases. The past year has been especially marked by the occurrence of similar ones, even to such an extent that some have called the phenomenon an epidemic. The public press has until lately been almost unanimous though often too severe in its condemnation of the practice. College men are just beginning to realize the folly and harmfulness of longer indulgence in hazing. A growth of tolerance in public sentiment in this matter is greatly to be desired, but any further laxness in college sentiment in the same respect is a result far more to be deplored. The college student can bring himself to forego hazing very easily, if he sees the advantage of so doing, and the very manifest advantages of such a course must become more and more evident to him as he sees the really harmful results that so often follow the practice. The Herald's extenuation of hazing is very well meant, but somewhat overstated.