In last night's edition of a Boston paper there appeared an article severely treating a recent act of thoughtlessness on the part of a few Harvard students. In the edition of another Boston paper that act is treated in a more impartial and fairer light. We hope that the latter sprit of leniency is growing to be the one in which the press regards the college student. Any small undignified and indecorous act done by a student here is heralded all over the country, and, by the time it has reached the western payers, it has grown into an almost absurd magnitude, the real matter itself being almost lost in the imaginary details rumor has collected for it. In the large number of students here, it is almost impossible that a few acts of thoughtlessness should not happen. in the case only, it must be observed, of a few men. It is for the better control of this few that the college regulations have been lately made more strict. Especially does this apply to freshmen, who, having just come from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them.