Last Monday night, according to the improved custom, was celebrated by a large minority of the members of this University in a way that perhaps was highly satisfactory to their desire for "free drink." Thus the college year was opened under auspices of which every true son of Harvard must feel intensely proud, for in the orgy of that interesting evening he must see a thoughtful devotion to the good name which Harvard has hitherto possessed, arguing well for the glory of her future.

Harvard College treats the students as men; the students, however, act in some instances, like the merest children. The performances of last Monday night can find no sanction in the minds of candid and impartial men. The class of '91, represented by a number of its uncontrolled spirits, has made for itself an unenviable reputation early in its career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn, although they are freshmen. This matter ought to be looked in the face squarely. It is not alone in the celebration of "Bloody Monday" that an undesirable spirit is shown, in other ways and at other times the same spirit presents itself. There are few Harvard men who have not heard fathers complain that the social system in Cambridge was so rotten that they would never send another son here. After making allowance for exaggeration, there is still much which should make those who are aiding in the perpetuation of "a rotten social system" pause a moment to consider whether they have any right-moral or otherwise-to make Cambridge unfit for young men about to begin their college course. ent men of their standing and fame sacrifice much in a pecuniary way by

It was generally supposed yesterday that the freshmen class meeting would take place this evening, but,as was the case last year, the faculty decided that, in order to prevent the consequences of a rush, the meeting should occur in the afternoon. This is probably a sore disappointment to many of the sophomores, who think they have an a priori right to enjoy a little fun with the freshmen on the night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways of spending an evening than parading about the college yard in phalanxes and testing their lungs to the utmost to see which party can outdo the other in bravado. Besides, the yard is no place for rushes, Jarvis Field is reserved for that intellectual occupation. As soon as the undergraduates bring themselves to the point when they can go to a freshman meeting without spoiling for the excitement of a "rush," the ban of the faculty on night meetings will probably be removed.