In this solemn hour of intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect of intercollegiate sport upon manners and the sense of proportion and decency.

The Daily Princetonian waves the offending sheet away. But does it speak for Harvard? Dr. Hibben's scholars "want definite assurance that it doesn't. Princeton might have taken judicial notice that the Lampoon has bestowed "the coarse expectoration of its speech" as freely upon collegians and journals at Cambridge as upon the Nassavians. Who is to give assurances for Harvard? So far as we know, her graduates are friendly to Princeton. The rivalries of college newspapers at Cambridge are as notorious as the general contempt for most of them. Still, this attack of muckeritis is momentous The Princetonian darkly intimates that the Big Three may be disrupted. That would be intolerable.

Let Lobarno perish and the League of Nations fall; but the Big Three must and shall be preserved. There will be conversations and negotiations about this high matter. If necessary, all Harvard graduates and undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused, however. The posts were supposed to be protected by a pitiful little band of policemen. That was a challenge not to be refused. The joy of assaulting of fibers of the law was added to the usual diversion.

Hooligans and muckers, why must college men at college games be both? Seeing no glory in honest sport, why must these so highly "educated" persons set so extreme a value on victory, behave like a cross between an idiot and a maniac? Sometimes one thinks their case is pathological. Sometimes one wonders if a Society for the Introduction of Civilization into Large Colleges would do any good? Would it cure these Dionysians, graduate and undergraduate, if they were settled among the Pueblo Indians to learn gentlemanly sportsmanship and the rudiments of breeding? But this would be laying too hard a task upon those children of an immemorial culture --New York Times, Nov. 9.