We are sorry that the Williams Athenoeum takes so gloomy and bitter a view of the changes proposed for the college base-ball league. From information gleaned from private sources we had been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand apart and form, as it were, an aristocracy of universities, the latter are separating themselves, not only from the true brotherhood of American collegians, but from the sympathies of the lettered public as well." We fear that the Athenoeum is somewhat precipitate in its generalizations. If such a spirit is arising we quite agree with our contemporary that it should be checked. But such considerations are beside the point at issue - as to the advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling is all very well and is undoubtedly one of the subsidiary objects of the league; but to claim this as its chief object is absurd. We hope our friends at Williams will see the justice of these considerations.