In another column we gladly publish a communication which corrects an editorial in yesterday's issue. Our criticism was based on the report of the Convention which appeared in the Boston dailies. Because of the failure of the base-ball men in college promptly to correct this report, we unwittingly did injustice to Yale.
We are sorry to hear of a serious breach of courtesy among the students in Chemistry I, for it is only by this name that we can designate the whistling which fills the air of the laboratory in the presence of the instructor. The hours of laboratory work ought to be regarded much in the same light as lectures or recitations, and the same decorum ought to be preserved which everybody seems bound to observe in the lecture room. Besides the lack of courtesy toward the instructor, this habit of whistling seriously hinders men doing their work in a careful manner. We hope that we shall not hear any more complaints on this head.
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