More than half the undergraduate papers in American colleges are censored by faculty or student councils, if the group of student representives of publications at the annual congress of the National Student Federation of America, held in Toronto last week, gives a fair picture of the situation. Only twenty-one of the fifty-six colleges represented in the group had campus papers which were absolutely free of control, according to the report received here. In the other thirty-five a faculty ban prohibits editorial criticism of the faculty or administration.

Not only news matter but advertising comes under the eye of the faculty in twenty-three of the colleges, with the result that in the majority of cases cigarette advertising is barred, while six papers may not publish religious advertisements and one woman's college may not accept beauty parlor advertisements.

Many college papers are censored by student governments, it was brought out, and the majority of delegates at the meeting put themselves on record as in favor of a continuance of this supervision--most of the students present were officers themselves--although they opposed faculty control.

That a majority of the Eastern women's colleges are entirely free of faculty supervision of their publications was brought out at the conference of the Women's Intercollegiate News Association held recently in Providence, R. I. Only two of the ten colleges at the conference represented reported any administrative interference with their editorial policy. Hunter College in New York City, the only unendowed college at the meeting, was one of the two to report that it was not allowed to print any editorial or open forum comments on the faculty or administration. New York Times