In one of the newspaper accounts of the Yale-Harvard game of last Saturday the following entirely false paragraph appeared:-

"Stagg, availing himself of an opportunity offered by a passed ball, dashed to third. Then reached home plate with no time to spare. The decision was a close one and was greeted with hisses. The Harvard men 'kicked,' but it was of no use. The umpire was determined."

The above is only a sample of the way in which newspaper reporters get things mixed. It is no wonder that the Board of Overseers talk of the "continual recriminations" offered by one nine to another in the intercollegiate league when they read such lies in the columns of the daily press. On the occasion mentioned above, there was absolutely no hissing whatever on the part of the Harvard men; and, in fact, the conduct of the spectators on both sides was perfectly decent and gentlemanly throughout the game. It seems to be a rule among press reporters, whenever they can make out a story which will injure college men, that it is their duty to do so, and they follow the paths of their so-called duty with a ghoulish glee that is positively sickening. There are certain papers in Boston which seem to make a business of filling up their columns with false trash about Harvard whenever they are hard up for stuff. People easily believe sensational stories about the college. particularly when little occurrences are made to assume the proportions of hideous crimes. The thing has ceased to be a joke and is fast becoming a downright nuisance.