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The faculty, last Tuesday considered the question of making sweeping changes in the requirements for admission. No decision was reached, it being deemed best that so weighty a matter should be left for further deliberation. The enterprise of the Harvard correspondent of the Boston Herald in precipitately announcing that a decision had been arrived at, is not very commendable. His false news is likely to be copied widely over the country, and, if by any possibility the faculty do not decide to make the contemplated change, considerable embarrassment will result to the college before the erroneous impression can be entirely removed from people's minds.

Even if the announcement shall only prove premature, the position of the faculty is made an unpleasant one. It is much less easy to come to a decision in the face of a storm of hostile criticism; and the rumor that the fate of prescribed classics hangs in the balance at Harvard, is likely to raise such a storm. The wish to be first in collecting a piece of news is a legitimate desire for a newspaper reporter. He abuses the power, however, which his position gives him when he prints his news on insufficient information in a great city daily.