It is to be regretted that the Princetonian should see fit to decide upon the merits of the recent vote of our Board of Overseers without waiting for fuller information upon the question involved. It is a universal tendency of college journalism to form hasty opinions on insufficient knowledge of a matter, and it appears that the Princetonian has erred in this direction. Unfortunately, too, a vein of malice seems to appear, which wounds more than the unjust condemnation of our system of recitations.

"There is a plain recognition in the resolutions," says the Princetonian, "of the failure of some features of the Harvard plan." It must be admitted that, owing to the unfortunate action of the overseers, no other conclusion is open to an outsider who has no opportunity of knowing the real facts of the case. But when the Princetonian adds, "notably of the part of it which takes away all restraint upon exercises under the pretext of giving freedom," it is apparent that our contemporary is letting imagination supply the lack of information.

To those who are conversant with the facts of the case, such talk is absurd. The charge of "all restraint being taken away" is wholly false. Each professor exercises full power over any student who cuts his course oftener than the instructor thinks advisable and such power extends even to expulsion from the course. It is not seldom taken advantage of. To say that the Board of Overseers have proved their wisdom is to reflect upon President Eliot, the one best fitted to judge of the matter.

The Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right.