The communication in regard to proctors, which we publish on the first page of to-day's issue, deserves the attention of all undergraduates who room in the college buildings. There is no doubt but that there are proctors who are over officious, yet we can hardly believe with our correspondent that the evil of their unwarranted interference is a very great one. It seems to us that sometimes the proctors are not quick enough to remind too noisy students that there are others whose rights must not be infringed upon, even at the expense of a breaking up of a modest social gathering. Again it is urged that the present system of surveillance is a bad one. But is this true? Are the proctors put in the buildings to report disturbances or to prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does not wish to hear of breaches of discipline in the college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like an isolated house in a ten acre lot. but that there is a certain duty of self-restraint which devolves upon all who live in such close proximity to one another,
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