The college is curiously divided on the foot ball question. In the first place, there are those who resent any interference in athletics whatever on the part of the faculty. They want Yale's policy adopted here. But our faculty has settled that question once for all by establishing the Athletic Committee, and those gentlemen may as well take Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number, and are not very fond of supporting their views with sound arguments. Then comes a large proportion of the students, who agree very nearly with the Athletic Committee; the only point of difference being in most cases that the students wish another attempt made in the foot ball convention, in which Harvard shall say, "These revised rules. or we cannot play" -thereby giving us another chance at intercollegiate games in case Yale and Princeton will agree to whatever changes Harvard desires. The last class consists of a man here and there, and doubtless a number in the faculty, who declare foot ball is too dangerous, so dangerous that accidents are sure to happen every year any one of which would offset all the physical benefit the students get from the game; that one man laid up outweighs a hundred men developed.

Those who urge the dangerousness of the game should remember, however, that the benefits of foot ball are by no means merely physical. The game developes character, develops it much more than any other game we have. It makes a man of you, teaches you fearlessness, quick thinking, self-control (or should, when rightly played). subordination. The game may be perverted. and the character it develops be bad character, as we see in the case of one, at least, of the colleges; but that may be said of everything that affects character at all. And because anything that helps the growth of character may be perverted, we should not therefore give up striving to develope character. Foot ball can be played without moral hurt, and was, until within the last few, years. And some of us have our opinion as to the one source from which ail the harm to the game came; we think we know who began the tricks and the roughens. But however that may be, the game is valuable for much more than physical development; and its dangerousness of late has been greatly increased by the abuses that have so nearly ruined it. The game we look forward to for next year among ourselves, if not with some other colleges, will not be nearly so dangerous; and even if it were to be as dangerous, those of us who feel how much manly we are for the game would be willing to run the risks, and would be willing in years to come to have our sons run the same risks. Surely, then. in this country and in this age, we cannot afford to lose any sport that has so great man-making power.