There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following in that enterprising Boston daily:-

"SMASHED AT FOOT-BALL.

"Some twenty young athletes examined their jammed-up faces, strained muscles and broken bones with considerable interest to-day. The other two who played foot-ball at Cambridge yesterday, somehow came out looking tolerably unlike prize-fighters the day after. A couple of young men, including Captain Holden, who lay Saturday night about as nearly knocked to pieces without being killed as a young man could, were seriously damaged. The fact is, Saturday's game at Harvard was recklessly rough and full of slugging."

"The results of the foot-ball game of Saturday between Harvard and Princeton teams ought to settle the question of colleges sanctioning the sport longer. Foot-ball as a college sport ought to go."

The closing invocation is one which we are thankful to say, our faculty does not sanction; and if every game is as free from the objectionable features as Saturday's was, the career of foot-ball not only is not on the wane but has before it greater opportunities than any it has yet embraced.