Late last week there appeared in the New York Evening Post an article on extravagance at Yale. The substance of the article is this: The writer claims that the undergraduates of Yale are very much overdoing the Junior Promenade week and are spending an amount of money on it which is entirely beyond what is reasonable. Whether or not Yale is spending too much money on the Promenade is, of course, none of our business and we shall not discuss it here. Our point is simply this, that people are beginning to appreciate that they can no longer confine the terms "extravagance" and "rich man's college" to Harvard without betraying distressing ignorance and laying themselves open to the charge of idiocy. Harvard can show no festival of any kind which assumes nearly the proportions in the matter of expense, for so long a period, as the Yale Junior Promenade. The only thing which approaches it is Class Day; but this only lasts a few hours and is no such steady pull on a man's purse strings as is exerted by the Promenade. It is a relief to find a paper which is willing for once to open its eyes to the fact that Harvard men are no worse money-spenders than many other college men. If papers would take one step farther they would see that the spirit of snobbishness, which people talk so much about in connection with Harvard, is a delusion. There is an aristocracy at Harvard, but it is for the most part an aristocracy of character and personality, not of wealth. In the long run and in the majority of cases, men here stand on their own feet and are judged by their own merits, not by their purses. We are glad that some thinking man has called attention to this Junior Promenade at Yale, not because we favor the noising about of stories of college money-spending, but because we feel a sincere regret that Harvard alone has had to bear the brunt of accusations on this score, when she, perhaps less than her sister universities, has deserved such treatment. Harvard life has its abuses; it is simply absurd, however, not to see that abuses are not confined to Harvard life.