Comment on the disfiguring of the John Harvard statue is unneeded, except to impress upon those who are not students how universally the latter are disgusted with the affair. As might have been expected, every undergraduate who has been heard to express an opinion on the subject has condemned the action in the strongest terms as that of persons who have no regard whatever for the good name of the University, and simply took the baseball game as an excuse to commit this outrage. Certainly such uncalled for proceedings show any but the real spirit in which Harvard athletic celebrations are held.

It is, then, quite unjust to hold the University at large responsible for this affair. There have been occasions within the last year or two upon which students have been rather careless with firearms, and generally obstreperous; but a timely warning has always done away with this kind of thing, and it can be said, to the credit of the undergraduates, that no firearms of any kind were heard after Saturday's game. There is, however, a distinction to be made between these small breaches of discipline and the painting of the statue. The latter is something with which the student body has absolutely no sympathy or patience, and it is generally felt that if those who took part in the affair are members of the University, the sooner they cease to be the better.