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We hope that everyone will read in another column Mr. Wendell's communication explaining the unfortunate thefts from the gymnasium. The extravagant scandals which have grown from the affair, are, as most of us in college know, due to the industry of certain undergraduate reporters for the Boston dailies. We have often spoken of the untrustworthy accounts of college matters which come out in these papers, and have urged that more care be taken in the future; but mere remonstrance has no effect. Some of these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying. It may sound harsh to speak of them thus; but so many falsehoods have appeared in print that all cannot be due to accident. We wish that some measures could be taken either by the college or the papers in town, effectually to stop this nuisance of sensational reporting.

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