Lack of space in these columns has prevented our mentioning before to-day the current number of the Lampoon. The present Lampoon editors have so evidently abandoned the sort of humor, both in illustration and reading matter, that used to appear in their columns, that we find ourselves wondering if the change is for the better, if the editors have shown good taste in departing from the peculiar college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads," and the "War Papers," are, it must be said, funny and laughable, but still they appeal to an inferior taste. Most men, who laugh, will also wish that something better, something less forced and more appropriate to a college paper and more in keeping with the Lampoon's former dignity, had been given them to read or look at. Startling pictorial tragedies, or comedies, and terribly humorous but also rather coarse sketches find their way often enough into the funny journals of the large cities, without having any need of attention from the Lampoon. Our contemporary loses its individuality when it publishes them. We would rather see it keep its long held reputation of being the best college funny paper in the country than have it rival Life, or Punch, or Puck.

But we realize that the Lampoon's success requires literary, as well as financial support from the college. We hope this support will be given. All college papers need support from outside, and the Lampoon no less, perhaps even more than most of them. Let the appeals, that have so often been made by the editors, receive a generous response.