Exaggerations Hurt

The liaibit some reporters lor the Detroit and other outside papers have of exaggerating what occurs here in Ann Arbor, just for the sake of a sensational item, is reprehensible. It lias lx"en caTiíted to such an extent in .tli past, tliat the people of the state and country at large, look v.pon Aun Arbor ae a sort of bedlam or hades upon. earth. The y have had student-frolics and ruishes held up before tliera as bloody prize fights and the likt' unfri the mere mentios of the name of Ann Arbor beíore a certain elaes oí timid poople causes huge shudders to pjiiss down their spine, and bands of mutiluted living corpsus to pass in long próaees'.on I :-iore thcir i. TiiL' last event of th:s kind was the t-o-called rush at the Unrversity hall a few days stoce, caused by the attempt of the S. L. A. to sell permanently reserved seats. The idea of exaggerating that affair into a "hay-market riot" was so abeurd that it laused pi'oplc ln-rc to smilc, but those abroad took it in dead earnest, and have it treasured up as another "grudge" against tli; horrible dents. Home of the Detroit papera, whose edltors ought to know enough ahout the rnivfisity and student liic to keep sik-U exaggerations out of tfceir ciMitmis, have been as tngenuous as tbe i-ural people who believc nnythiag lad- 110 matter how bad- tkat is eaid about the Univeisity, nnfl discredit inything good no matter how plaln ft may be made to tfem. The report that comes from Russla, to the. eiftvt that peoplc are dying by tlve hundrcds there of cholera, altliough the weather s freezfaig cold, is not very eucouraging ior America and the WoïW'fl Fair next fiummcr. Uiilt'ss the greatest precautions re observed ths cholera will be hre next year.