Now that the athletic committee have somewhat modified their recent strictures on foot ball, we shall be able to play the long anticipated Thanksgiving game. But it must be remembered that this is entirely owing to the courtesy of the Yale team, who have, in order to have a game with us, voluntarily agreed to conform to the arbitrary rulings of our faculty committee. We desire to thank Yale most sincerely for the honorable feeling that prompted this concession, a feeling that is most aptly expressed in the editorial from Friday's News which we reprinted entire in yesterday's issue. But even this latest move of the committee has not bettered in the smallest degree the aspect of their former action. It only goes to show how untenable was their original position about which our views have not changed in the slightest. We believe that they overstepped their authority as well as the bounds of prudence, and we think that in common justice to the students, the faculty should refuse to sanction their action. When this is done, if the faculty still see any grounds for objecting to foot ball as at present played, we do not doubt that reform measures can be adopted, which may even receive foreign co-operation, and which will not in any case put Harvard students in an unpleasant position, nor impose upon those of other colleges.