The Harvard Crimson has been a pretty well-behaved publication, as undergraduate journals go. In most years its news columns and its editorial comments have reflected a high standard of journalistic discrimination and common sense, and its editors have displayed a correct conception of a newspaper's function, which is to print news that is really news, and be quick about it. They have not found it necessary, for the most part, to trump up sensations in order to make the CRIMSON look like "a regular fellow" among newspapers.

This year, however, the news columns of the CRIMSON have been made to sizzle betimes with stories concerning the Ku Klux Klan at Harvard and other such stuff as dreams are made on. Good judgment, we think, would have counselled the omission of these lurid tales which proved to be without substantial foundation in fact. And good editorial judgment would also have indicated the waste-basket as the proper depositary for a letter which the CRIMSON printed a few days ago over the signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship.

As an elder brother, living under the same roof (and this is no mere metaphor) the Bulletin ventures to suggest an abatement in the firecracker brand of undergraduate journalism. The CRIMSON has a good tradition to maintain, a tradition which contains no yellow streak. It is the dally organ, not of its editors alone, but of the entire membership of the University. These editors abide their little hour and go their way, but the tradition of the paper ought to be in their hands a trust. --Alumni Bulletin.