In all colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without it college papers would lose their interest even in the colleges where they are published; their editorials would be insipid and without point, and many items of interest concerning, perhaps, some of the restricting powers, would be suppressed.

While we who, fortunately or unfortunately, are members of the harsher sex, have the liberty to publish anything we please in our college papers, we are sorry to learn that the same privilege is not enjoyed by the fair publishers and editresses of the Lasell Leaves. They, poor aspirants for journalistic fame, are obliged to subject all their manuscript and "copy" to the judgment of one who has the right to cut and slash the scented, pink-paper copy as he sees fit, and who, no doubt, in this manner robs the Leaves of many of its best articles, and certainly of its originality. The fairness of this we are inclined to question.

We congratulate the Leaves, however, on its brightness under the present disadvantageous state of affairs, and make bold to express the hope that, in a place where the "Rights of Women" are so strongly advocated their rights may be made practical, even in a matter of so small importance as the management of an academy paper.