The celebration Saturday evening was marked by some disgraceful performances which should meet with the strongest condemnation from every Harvard man. A moderate amount of enthusiasm is an excellent thing, but when a man allows himself to be carried into a marauding expedition like that of Saturday evening, it is time that a most decided half should be called. It is shameful that an athletic victory should lead to such acts of vandalism as daubing red paint over the most conspicuous places around the yard. Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John Harvard and the buildings is great and perhaps irreparable. There have been some mischievous attacks on the statue before this, and some ungentlemanly incidents in previous celebrations, but but no student raid of modern times has been so outrageous as this.

The college papers have been noting with satisfaction the increased interest in athletics which the year has developed, and friends of the college have been hoping that all traces of "Harvard indifference" had died out forever. But if this performance is the result of the new spirit we had better return to the old days of listlessness. If this year's generous gifts,- the Weld boat-house, the Carey Building and the new athletic grounds-have roused a spirit which manifests itself in such a way, we had better give up athletics altogether.

There can be no question that the outrage was perpetrated by a small number of men, probably only two or three. Its effects, however, are reflected upon the whole body of Harvard students. Every man at college must bear part of the shame and consider himself personally responsible for the evil that has been done. It is therefore incumbent upon every man to do his utmost toward whatever reparation can be made. First of all the culprits should be hunted up and be made to leave college. Harvard has no place for such vandals as they. In the next place there shoudl be some expression of student sentiment deprecating the mischief. A mass meeting has been called and every Harvard man should make it his business to be present and add his voice to the remonstrance. Every man must now be under the condemnation of the public, and the only way to clear himself is to express his indignation at the outrage and the rascals who committed it.