REPORTING.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As a graduate of Harvard, it pains me to discover that there are now in college any cranks who could write such a letter as I saw in your issue of Saturday last on the subject of sensational reporters. Yet I have hopes for him, for none but a freshman would be so ignorant of Rhetoric as to write "to deliberately falsify," and none but a freshman would be guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold, dry fact" in an interesting way. If after leaving college he should try newspaper work, be might, if he had acquired some common-sense by that time, learn that no large newspaper hires "raving maniacs," or prints stories written up "with little or no foundation in fact." After years of experience in Harvard reporting, I can truthfully say thay I ever knew a story about anything that happened at Harvard to be "written up" at the expense of truth. Graphic description is not falsification. Facts may be disgraceful, but it is the business of the reporter to give them, not to express them. If a reporter cannot tell facts in an interesting way, he must make room for somebody who can. Allow me to say that I think this anonymous attack on the character of well-known gentlemen is far more disgraceful than any sensational story I have ever seen printed about Harvard. I hope that neither jealousy nor any other motive may lead to its repetition.

GRADUATE.