ny way condone the breach. Leniency in such matters is not recommended.
"Facilis descensus Averni" as one of the great poets of the Middle Ages
so aptly put it.}

COLLEGE BOYS

It is the tendency of the age to excuse many social errors in young
people, and especially is this true of the mischievous pranks of college
boys. If Harvard football heroes and their "rooters," for example, wish
to let their hair grow long and wear high turtle-necked red "sweaters,"
corduroy trousers and huge "frat" pins, I, for one, can see no grave
objection, for "boys will be boys" and I am, I hope, no "old fogy" in
such matters. But I also see no reason why these same young fellows
should not be interested in the graces of the salon and the arts of
the drawing-room. Consider, for example, the following two letters,
illustrating the correct and incorrect method in which two young college
men should correspond, and tell me if there is not some place in our
college curriculum for a Professor of Deportment:

An Incorrect Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student
Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory

DEAR MIKE:

Here's your damn money. I was a fool to give you odds.
ED.
P. S. What happened at the Nass? I woke up Sunday with a terrific
welt on my forehead and somebody's hat with the initials L. G.
T., also a Brooks coat. Do you know whose they are? P. P. S.
Please for God's sake don't cash this check until the fifteenth
or I'm ruined.

And here is the way in which I would suggest that this same letter be
indited.

A Correct Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student
Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory

MY DEAR "FRIENDLY ENEMY":

Well, well, it was a jolly game, wasn't it, and it was so good to
see you in "Old Nassau." I am sorry that you could not have come
earlier in the fall, when the trees were still bronze and gold. I
also regret exceedingly that you did not stay over until Sunday,
for it would have been such a treat to have taken you to see the
Graduate School buildings and the Cleveland Memorial Tower.
However, "better luck next time."

The enclosed check is, as you may well guess, in payment of our
wager on the result of the gridiron-contest. Truly, I am almost
glad that I lost, for I can not but think that gambling in any
form is at best an unprofitable diversion, and this has taught
me, I hope, a lesson from