The recent trouble between the Princetonian and the faculty of Princeton college brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves how much freedom they should be allowed, we straightway find ourselves on a much disputed ground.

In some minds there seems to linger the erroneous idea that all college papers are published simply for amusement, and it would be well for any such to disabuse their minds of this impression, before venturing an opinion as to the liberty any paper should possess. It is not the amusement, by any means, that induces men to devote so much of their time to writing. The real aim of every college paper is to voice the best collegiate sentiment on subjects that intimately concern a student ; and that, by so doing, it tends to raise the tone of a college is a matter, we are glad to say, that is quite beyond dispute.

Is the general feeling of a college of any weight? Most assuredly. The old warfare between professor and student is drawing rapidly to an end, and it is every day growing more evident that the best interests of both are far better advanced by a harmonious feeling between them.

So, by what right can a faculty threaten the suspension of a paper where it is pursuing a manly course, and fulfilling its highest duty by expressing what the whole student body feels? There can be no such right except that of might, and it is patent that might does not always make right. But, judging by the past, there can be no danger to apprehend that the college press will ever array itself in opposition to the college faculty except in the most extreme cases, and then it were far wiser that a most careful in quiry be made before such a measure as a threat to suspend be taken.