ON HECKLING FRESHMEN.

The publication of a long list of Freshman rules in the "Cornell Sun" might well furnish the University, and especially its newest members, with material for self-felicitation. The Cornell freshman is distinctly heckled, it appear. There are places where he mustn't go at all, places where he may go if he wears a coat and an official cap, and places where he may go if he doesn't sit in the first three rows. If he wishes to smoke a numeral pipe, he may do so only in the privacy of his own chamber. He must never, never wear a preparatory school pin. He must not remain seated in a street-car while an upperclassman stands.

Harvard has no Freshman rules. A Freshman, if he chooses, may keep his seat in a street-car while the oldest living graduate--and his wife-strap-hang; he may stalk boldly about the Yard with a top hat on his head and a pipe--any kind of a pipe--in his mouth. Even "Bloody Monday" is not at all bloody; and for some years, it hasn't even come on Monday. Here, the Freshman is subject to no laws which do not apply equally to upperclassmen.

While the rules printed in the "Sun" are probably hallowed with age, we cannot but be glad that no such tradition has ever gained headway here. Without the tradition behind us, our outlook is doubtless different from Cornell's. Yet it does seem more humane not to forbid the vantage points at the Shubert to the entire Freshman class.