In spite of the severe reprobation of the other Yale papers the Record bravely holds to its original opinion that the Yale faculty did an unwise thing in refusing to accede to President Eliot's request in regard to playing with professionals. "It is high time," it says, "however awkward it might be for our nine, that a broad boundary be put between college athletes and professionals. Though we realize perfectly that our nine, deprived of the practice it gets against professionals, would play a much poorer game than at present, and probably would not meet as good amateur nines as Harvard has at hand, still there is no excuse in either statement for Yale's not taking the opportunity here offered to join the other colleges of New England in their movement to rid athletics of an evident evil. No one who takes a proper view of baseball cares about the absolute excellence of our nine's playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that most of us want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems to us is gradually spreading in our colleges. It certainly is beginning to be held at Harvard, and Yale no doubt will be forced to accept it sooner or later.