A week ago, a first-page article was printed in the CRIMSON severely criticizing the Lampoon. While the managing editor was, of course, technically responsible for such matter, the author alone, as a matter of fact, was to blame in this case, for the matter was really editorial matter, which should have been submitted to the President for approval; and which, in this instance, did the board great injustice-as it threw upon them the burden of fathering a wholly individual piece of opinion. Appreciating as we did the great difficulties the Lampoon works under, the surprising reputation it has maintained for so many years, and the great effort it is making this year to make itself still more pleasing to the eye and amusing to the spirit, we did the only thing we could do-apologized for the criticism in question in our next number, and stated that it was an individual and not an editorial hallucination.

Apparently this was not sufficiently abject to please the Lampoon, for its issue of to-day devotes a great deal of space and ingenuity in abusing us, in spite of our apology; but we do not think that public opinion will pronounce their reply either called for or in good taste-perhaps they themselves will not in the course of a month or two. It is human to err.