To have heard the wild cheering in front of the newspaper offices in Boston Tuesday night, a stranger in the country would have thought that some man by the name of Harvard was running for office, and in the lack of sufficient votes to carry him through, his friends were trying the Mexican plan and starting a revolution. The exact appropriateness of cheering for a college in the occasion of a state election is not apparent to anyone besides the youthful perpetrators of the deed. As there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar outburst in the last two years, it was hoped that the usual freshman ebullition might be omitted. As all three candidates were Harvard graduates, perhaps there was a feeling that by cheering for alma mater, the different candidates could be honored, and yet the most tender of partisan feelings remain unhurt. However, the custom is a bad one and should be given up.