The Spirit of the Times is very much grieved over the treatment that the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association has received at the hands of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the Yale News takes the same text and adopts as its own the complaints which are put into its mouth by the Spirit.

The first complaint is that certain factious spirits in the convention of the Amateur Association tried to prevent the colleges from entering men at the amateur meeting by fixing the date of the meeting for the fall instead of for June; but, as this proposition was defeated, we hardly see the necessity of crying out against it now. The chief complaint, however, relates to the representation which the Inter-Collegiate Association is allowed in the conventions of the Athletic Association. "They did not, it is true, refuse the petition of the I. C. A. A. for membership in their select number," wails the News. "No; they granted them membership and - one vote. The full value of this tremendous concession can only be realized when the status of the two associations is remembered." And the News goes on to give the following information, clipped from the Spirit : "The A. A. A. consists of eleven clubs, the total membership of which is about 2000, of which number less than 400 are actual athletes. Each of these eleven clubs has one vote at all meetings of the association. The I. C. A. A. contains seventeen clubs, with an individual membership of 5000, 1000 being actual athletes. They are then entitled to at least seventeen votes. They are offered one."

Now the facts of the case are that the Inter-Collegiate Association never asked for more than one vote and never desired more than one vote. Its object in asking for membership in the Amateur Association was not for the purpose of absorbing the association or controlling its meetings. It thought it would be desirable to effect if possible a community of feeling between the two associations, and so asked for an opportunity to be allowed to bring the views of college athletes before the convention of the Amateur Association. For this purpose one delegate is amply sufficient, and the College Association did not expect or desire any larger representation.

"Will the I. C. A. A. so far forget her self-respect as to accept membership in the A. A. A. on such terms?" is the indignant question with which the News closes its invective. We sincerely hope that the I. C. A. A. will not so far forget its self-respect as to refuse an invitation, asked for by itself, simply because it is informed from outside sources that it has been unfairly treated.