In putting down as a matter of record the publication and the final suspension of the Harvard News, the CRIMSON is far from intending to vaunt itself over the failure of a rival Harvard paper.

That the CRIMSON has benefited by competition with the News we are willing to admit frankly. Probably the field of college news has never been so completely "covered"-to use a journalistic term-as it has been within the past year.

But the existence of two dailies at Harvard has involved certain features which are of very doubtful benefit. The constant effort of each paper to print everything which by even the remotest possibility may appear in the same day's issue of the rival paper, tends to cause the premature publication of matters which really need further investigation or confirmation. As a result inaccuracies sometimes occur, even though, as a rule, a paper may prefer the accuracy of an article to the chance of its being a "scoop."

There is another objection to having two daily papers at Harvard. There is in college life nothing corresponding to the varying political issues in defense of which opposing journals are maintained. In college, men are inclined to unite in the support of a paper in much the same way that they do in the case of a 'varsity athletic team. Their support may vary in strength from year to year, but they are almost as little inclined to countenance a division of interest in one case as in the other.

In view of this fact and the actual financial experience of the CRIMSON we are in a position to assert that at present it is absolutely impracticable for two daily papers to be carried on at Harvard together.

Now that the CRIMSON is in the field alone, the spur of competition is of course withdrawn. The aim of the paper, however, will always be, as it has been, to make use of everything which has been proved good by past experience and to take every possible step to increase the usefulness of the paper in the University.