Harvard's undergraduate daily, The CRIMSON, has made some pointed remarks about the administration's general attitude towards publicity. While it admits that Harvard does not need any advertising yet it says "People are interested in Harvard, among them 50,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information, they should at least be spared the misapprehensions and irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation." The CRIMSON declares Harvard has lost the enrollment of hundreds of worthy men who have been attracted to other universities as a result of misrepresentations in the press and popular traditions bred out of such misrepresentations and her endowment has lost substantial sums from graduates who have been outraged by unfavorably colored news.

The matter is of even more importance to a partly state supported institution. With these the taxpayers are to be considered, a group far in excess of any alumni body, yet few college officials and teachers appreciate the fact. The attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore, if an accurate and official statement is not made of all current events with news value, then it follows that a different kind of story will reach the papers with corresponding damage to the institution concerned.

We are quite certain the records will show that Virginia has been more hurt by the withholding of legitimate news than by its free publication. Several examples of this have recently occurred. If only good news is published the reading public will have scant respect for its value. All the news should come out, whether for good or ill. The very fact that it is going to be printed will increase efforts to prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself, its structure, its traditions, its policies, its results. The more the public knows about the University of Virginia, the better opinion will be about it, the more liberal will be appropriations for it. --University of Virginia   Alumni Bulletin.