WHO THREW THAT BRICK?

There appears in an adjoining column, under the title of "Student Muckcrism," an editorial from a Boston newspaper which, in its efforts to censure the recent "subway riot" of a few undergraduates, refers to Harvard in insulting language, achieving no more in its accusations than the bad-manners which it claims to have discovered. With the exception of a similar affair last spring, which was aggravated by too-zealous policemen, there is no recent precedent for the occurrence on Monday evening. Such an isolated and mild occasion scarcely calls for the thunders of the press to be couched in the terms of the accompanying indictment.

Harvard need not fear the besmirching of her name either by the actions of an infinitesimal minority or by external maledictions, and certainly not from this lonely testimony against her. Like the man who bites a dog, student actions, particularly careless ones, receive ridiculous publicity in comparison to the actions of other men. This latest undesirable criticism, neither unbiased nor constructive, is easily recognizable as more evidence of the readiness of Boston and Cambridge to betray their latent antagonism in a town-and-gown alignment which is marked most distinctly on occasions like the present.