"New York papers are authority for the statement that Campbell, the Harvard catcher, is a professional."

The above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime.

The New York World is the authority for the above statement, which we have taken from the Yale News. The brilliancy of the man who started the story cannot be surpassed by his evident malicious intent. In New York Harvard stands as the embodiment of Boston and Boston's peculiarities. For that reason she is assailed, but with an animosity which is far out of proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts Bay. Hence if they have any spite to vent upon this section of the country a much better way of doing it is open to them than the unconsidered one which they have chosen to adopt.

We are surprised to find that the Yale News took opportunity to circulate the story which originated in New York, but since it has done so, we can inform it that Yale will never gain by such means, the cordial support at an unprejudiced public, nor will enviable reputation for fairness to her adversaries be enhanced thereby.