We have been glad to see the readiness with which one of our exchanges corrected a false statement which appeared recently in its columns, about Harvard; and we wish that all college journals could practice a like courtesy. Sensationalism, the great enricher of reporters nowadays, starts on their evil missions almost no end of exaggerated and wholly false statements, and these statements somehow find their way into almost every paper in the country. It is at least courteous that those who have so eagerly published elaborate reports, should be as eager to publish denials of them, especially if undenied, they are likely to do injury. Such courtesy as this, however, unfortunately is far from being common, and because so uncommon is always highly appreciated.
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