EDITORIAL INDISCRETION.

The suppression of the recent "Monthly" by its editors when the ink of the isue was scarcely dry, is an act of editorial wisdom that almost makes up for the indiscretion of letting the number appear at all.

Undergraduate publications are apt to lose sight of the fact that the University, as well as the editors, is held responsible, and is judged and criticized for any intemperate utterance. If the editors were publishing the "Monthly" purely as a personal venture, and if the "Monthly" did not purport to be a magazine, representative of the literary ability and taste of the University, the editors might feel at liberty to publish anything within the postal regulations. But the "Monthly" calls itself the "Harvard Monthly," and is circulated as a Harvard undergraduate magazine. Its responsibility to the University is clear, and the editors, whose action shows that they realize this responsibility, are to be commended, even if the suppression came with an almost fatal tardiness.