The leading editorial in to-day's "Advocate" is well written and the several points of which it treats are well taken. We wish to sustain our sister paper in the opinions expressed. It is our belief that much of the ill feeling which is shown between the rival colleges is due more to misrepresentation and misunderstanding than to any other cause. We have tried to keep our columns free from the continual petty wrangling seen in many of our smaller exchanges and which is useful only to the managing-editor for filling space. In this attempt to stop unnecessary debating and quarrelling, especially between Harvard and Yale, we have been ably seconded by the News and doubtless in the future will be met more than half way on the path of friendship.

The tone of the college press is improving every year, and we notice a more manly spirit. It was toward this feeling of friendly and open intercourse that Mr. Cowles' speech tended the other evening, and those who heard it were more than glad to return the advance in double measure, And so we feel sure that any ill feeling between Harvard and Yale in the past is due in a great measure to the careful nourishing of the seeds of jealousy by outside influences, particularly by that of the daily public press. Careless reporting and "special" work done for the sake of filling "space" is at the bottom of the matter and we cannot but urge upon our older newspapers the great necessity of exercising a much more strict control over what is written for their columns about our large colleges. The spirit of gentlemanly emulation ought to be fostered, but a spirit of criticism and jealous carping is to be avoided like the plague.