The New York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced undergraduate which is intuitively apprehended by a green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think, be more surely averted if the undergraduates would put the faculty on honor by treating its members as intelligent and responsible beings, instead of arbitrarily enforcing a ruthless discipline and harshly refusing a petition which may be unreasonable, but which is couched in unexceptionably respectful terms." The Times man is always amusing, if somewhat off the point. Besides, his sarcasm is a little behind.