Were it not that our correspondent Nauseatus seems to have been suffering from his own malady at the time of his writing we should be inclined to agree with him in the opinion he has expressed. We cannot, however, join him in the uncharitable attitude which he has assumed toward good old Mother Advocate. If she be in error she need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball league. Very possibly there are men among us whose natural timidity forces them to look askance at Harvard's recent action, but these men neither represent the prevailing sentiment nor wield the strongest influence here. Harvard is not sorry that she has taken the stand she has. As we have pointed out before, she is in a far better position than any she has occupied since the football league was organized. What cause, then, she has for regret we cannot see. The Advocate is wrong in saying that Harvard has made a mistake in withdrawing, but that having made this mistake she must maintain her position. If we were really in fault it would clearly be our duty to retract regardless of consequences. But, save in the inopportune appointment of the committee to confer with Yale-a matter of comparative unimportance-we have not been in fault. The only reason for our maintaining our withdrawal from the league is because we believe it to have been right. Without sharing in the dyspeptic curses of Nauseatus, therefore, we could wish that the Advocate had represented Harvard's position more as we believe it really to be.

President Adams of Cornell has been making a tour of inspection among the various universities. He has visited Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Bryn Maur, and thoroughly investigated their several methods of instruction. He has now returned to Cornell.