There can be no doubt that a very considerable movement of "reform" is beginning to make itself felt among our American colleges in the matter of athletic sports. Not only among educators and college men has the question been attracting much attention during the past few years, but since President Eliot's recent action in the matter the general press and the public have begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think, can be better than that given in the last Nation, a statement that is worthy of the most careful consideration and discussion by all college men who are interested in athletics as a constituent part of a symmetrical college training. The writer says : "The general public is, we believe, under the impression that too much time is given to college sports by the bulk of our undergraduates in the great Eastern colleges. There never was a greater mistake. The fact is, there is far too little. The college base-ball, boating and foot-ball which make so much talk in the newspapers are shared in really by about two or three dozen young men in each college, whose expenses are paid by their fellows. All the 'athletic sport' that the great majority of the students get consists in the payment of money to the 'college eight,' or 'college nine,' as the case may be, though the introduction of bicycling and the establishment of gymnasiums have of late undoubtedly tended to cause a wider diffusion of physical culture. It is also true that objectionable as some of the accompaniments of the boat clubs and base-ball clubs may be, their existence and their triumphs and eclat serve a valuable purpose in keeping alive the interest in physical condition without which the 'well-rounded man' will, under any system of education, be an impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol of the possessor. Culture in our time needs to have a man in good 'condition' behind it to command popular respect. The grandeur of the 'college consumptives,' as Dennis Kearney called them, is gone forever."