"JUSTICE TO HARVARD"

During the recess the Yale News took occasion to comment editorially on the increased democratic and class spirit at Harvard, and although their knowledge of conditions here at present and in the past was, as they stated, superficial, we nevertheless thank them sincerely for the sentiments expressed. After commenting on the large number of class smokers and dinners, Senior buttons and dormitories, the News suggests that the time has come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social ideals. Although we do not admit that the Harvard atmosphere has ever been narrow or snobbish, we do think that a healthy wave of democracy and intelligent class loyalty has swept over the University during the last college generation. We have come to realize that a large University has some disadvantages which tend to counteract its many advantages and which can only be overcome by some unusual effort--artificial at first, perhaps, but soon becoming real and natural. We are not ashamed that Yale has noticed our effort and we believe that every Harvard man will be glad to meet Yale on the ground of equality and mutual respect.