e of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Beware of the honor which is dishonor.

I hear that the ground is taken that the affairs of Class-Day are not a
legitimate subject of public comment; that it is a private matter of
the Senior Class, of which one has no more right to speak in print than
one has so to speak of a house in Beacon Street to which one might be
invited. Is it indeed so? I have no right to go into Mr. Smith's house
in Beacon Street,--I use the term Smith as simply generic, not meaning
to imply for a moment that so plebeian a name ever marred a Beacon
Street door-plate,--and subsequently print that I was hospitably
entreated, or that the chair-covers were faded and the conversation
brilliant. Neither have I any right to go into Master Jones's room, in
Hollis Hall, and inform the public that he keeps wine in his cigar-box,
and that he entertained his friends awkwardly or gracefully. But
suppose all the Beacon Street families have a custom of devoting one
day of every year to festivities, in which festivities all Boston, and
all the friends, and the friends' friends, whom each Beacon Street
family chooses to invite, are invited to partake. The Common, and the
State-House, and the Music-Hall, &c. are set apart for dancing, the
houses are given up to feasting,--and this occurs year after year. Is
it a strictly private affair? I have still no right to denounce or
applaud or in any way characterize Mr. Smith's special arrangements;
but have I not a right to discuss in the most public manner the general
features of the custom? May I not say that I consider feasting a
possible danger, and the dancing a certain evil, and assign my reasons
for these opinions?

I have spoken of the condition of some of the buildings. I find in the
College records repeated instances of the College authorities appealing
to the public concerning this very thing. So early as 1651, the Rev.
Henry Dunster, President of the College, represented to the
Commissioners of the United Colonies the decaying condition of the
College buildings, and the necessity of their repair and enlargement:
and the Commisioners reply, that they will recommend to the Colonies to
give some yearly help, by pecks, half-bushels, and bushels of wheat.
Is a subject that is brought before Congress improper to be brought
before the public in a magazine?

I have spoken of the banqueting arranged by the Senior Class. Is that
private? I find in a b