BLAME MISPLACED?

The distortion of Harvard news in outside papers has for some time roused the indignation of graduates and undergraduates alike; but not until lately has it been taken up as a serious problem. Last year a Press Club was organized. It discovered that the fault for which the newspapers had long been condemned lay not entirely with the newspapers; also, that the very principle on which it, the Press Club, was founded--that of control of news--was wrong.

This year work has been carried on quietly by a number of men interested, with the idea that if once fair treatment for the newspapers were secured, the newspapers would reciprocate. There is no doubt that they have had cause for complaint. At times they have been treated by the University or its members with that condescension which railroads were wont to assume toward the public not long ago; and they have turned to it for satisfaction by means of exaggerated stories. These are the days when publicity is the acknowledged course for railroads and big business; they are also the days when members of the University should realize that not only out of justice but for the greatest good, they should give the newspapers a "square deal". If they are skeptical as to the results, at least as Mr. Kline suggests in the Illustrated, they might try.