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Shortly after the Harvard-Wesleyan game at Middletown two weeks ago, the Wisleyan Argus published two editorials, the spirit of which the following extracts will indicate.

"The conduct of the majority of the Harvard team was such as to bring the blush of shame to the face of any college man who believes in an honorable competition in athletic contests.

An unusual number of substitutes were brought here from Cambridge with the avowed purpose of having a large reserve force to call upon in case the umpire should interfere with the process of doing Wesleyan up."

When our attention was called to this attack in the Wesleyan Argus, we treated it with the contempt it deserved by passing it by unnoticed, remembering the source from which it came. In a recent number of the Princetoniun, however, the editors have seen fit to publish the extracts from the editorials in question. If, as it seems, those statements of the Argus are to go the rounds of the college press, we have, in justice to the Harvard team, to notice them far enough to deny them. What movive actuated the editors of the Princetonian to reprint the statements of the Wesleyan paper, which were so evidently viciously false and malicious, is not apparent. But it seems to us that a paper representing a college of the students of Princeton, must be of great need of matter when it lowers itself far enough to publish such expression of peturlent boyishness-to call it by no harder name,- as appeared in the editorials of the Wesleyan paper.

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