The writer of the communication published in another column, in his anxiety to defend his position as a newspaper correspondent, is evidently somewhat prejudiced by his point of view.

In commenting on the editorial in the Graduates' Magazine which complains of sensational and "padded" Harvard news written by students for the Boston papers, he says: that such reports are caused by the foolish and lawless spirit displayed by undergraduates in their celebrations, and that a good tempering influence is exerted by their publication. He forgets that objection is not made to the existence of the reports themselves, but to their sensational, distorted, and often absolutely false character. The assertion than none of these reports is ever the work of a Harvard man is one which we should like to believe; but it certainly puts those papers in a strange light who publish so many irresponsible stories about Harvard and yet have none of them written by their Harvard correspondents.

In regard to the exclusion from the CRIMSON office last June of the representatives of certain Boston papers, the writer implies that this step was taken by the CRIMSON Board because it was thought that the reports of the baseball celebration were the work of the Harvard correspondents. This was not the case. The editors understood perfectly at the time that none of the reports were written by students. As they then took care to expain, it was intended to show those papers which had been most conspicuous in the past for the publication of similar articles that the CRIMSON considers them as exponents of what is low and unreliable in journalism and is unwilling to extend the privileges of its office to their correspondents. Thus-it will be seen that the writer of the communication regards the action of the board in a personal light, while it is really directed against the papers in question, and was finally caused by what they published about the so-called riot.

It is to be regretted that the writer has seen fit to apply to himself a general criticism of so real an abuse, thereby compelling us to give so much space to a story already worn threadbare.