The Freshmen won well-deserved praise last Fall for pledging, ninety percent strong, not to participate in rioting and to discourage riots. Spring has come, and with Spring murmurs and whispers have been running through the Freshman Class.

Last year the Class of 1934, spurred on by tradition and the gibes of a few upperclassmen, tried to stage a riot. The result was a pitiful farce. No one seemed actually to care about rioting. People began to realize that the modern Yale undergraduate has a different attitude toward this form of diversion than did the student of as decade ago. Today he is indifferent to riots.

Indifference has for quite awhile been the attitude of the upper classes toward rioting, but until lately freshmen have been able to whip up sufficient enthusiasm. Along with other "collegiate" tendencies, the riot spirit in recent years has been dying even among freshmen.

The News and, it can be fairly said, a large part of the student body, hope sincerely that the Class of 1935 will keep its pledge, and that it will realize that by so doing it is refusing to make a foolish attempt at rejuvenating a dying custom. --Yale News.