The Buffalo Express in an issue in the early part of last week saw fit to publish the following statement:

"The secretary of Harvard says that a student can pursue a course of study at that institution for $300 a year. That may be all right, but who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study?"

It is evident that the winter must have passed his life in the seclusion of his own conceit, if he thinks that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those who have never heard of Harvard, or have received their knowledge of her through just such unreliable sources as the writer of the passage quoted above. A man who knows Harvard as she is would never sacrifice his reputation for intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such words. If he was not acquainted with the facts of the case, he is not justified in trying to prejudice the public by a method so small and unmanly. If he tried to be bright and to establish a reputation as a funny man, he had best give up at once and try a hand at something which requires less general intelligence and appreciation of humor.

It would hardly be worth while to notice so spiteful an attack if there not many others whose ignorance and narrowness are cropping out every once in a while in some such as way this. They read sensational headlines of what two or three men do, or perhaps even more, out of nearly three thousand. With an eagerness characteristic of the man expelled for riotous behavior, they snatch at the chance to give Harvard a vicious "dig." "Who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study" they say and you can almost see them smile with satisfaction at the readiness of their own wit and the depth of their observation. We wish that a few such writers could take a course here, and they would soon have their eyes opened to the insignificance of their own greatness.