EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to thank you for the sensible stand you have taken on the question of professional trainers and practice with professional nines. The feeling is becoming general through the college that the regulations of the faculty, however wellintended they may be, are, in their present form, injurious to our athletic interests, and at the same time not welladapted to bring about the desired absence of a "professional" spirit. The question is not one which can be settled by arbitrary rules; for no matter how strong the regulations may be made, cases will continually arise in which exceptions will have to be made to their strict enforcement. The fact is that it is impossible to draw the line unerringly between professionals and amateurs, and if anybody should attempt to draw such a line he would find himself confronted with a multitude of unanswerable technical questions. In trying to enforce the rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many, or to act inconsistently with the strict interpretation of the rule. Everybody understands by this time Harvard's position on the side of pure athletics. Would it not be the policy of wisdom to abolish arbitrary rules and regulations, and let college athletics regulate themselves, subject, of course, to occasional restraint, in case there is evidence of abuse of the privilege. This is the way the question appears to one who takes a great interest in it, though not an athlete himself. Please pardon me for taking up so much of your valuable space.

SENIOR.