An editorial on the throwing of water from the windows of the dormitories would seem at first glance to be futile as well as trivial. Yet it is neither. It is a matter which can mean much for Columbia's standing in the eyes of people living in the immediate vicinity.

Apparently it is never possible to drive through the skull of the average undergraduate the fact-that what he does is in a large measure responsible for the opinion of Columbia which his intimates and those with whom he comes in contact form. The connection seems too distant and abstract for him to realize.

Not only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator, May 16.