WE regret to see that the management of the foot ball association has been as yet unable to shake off that remarkable apathy which has been so conspicuous during the past season. With our overwhelming defeat at the hands of Yale, the officers of the association seemed to be of the opinion that their so-called labors were at an end. It seems to us, however, and we think the college will agree with us, that now is the very time that at least, some energy should be shown by their half hearted management. The question at issue is one of life or death to the interests of the Harvard Foot Ball Association, and yet such a crisis, the gentlemen in whom this trust has been placed, calmly sit in their rooms and quietly let things take their course, or in other words, they let other men fight their battles for them. At the conference last Monday night, a time at which every effort should have been made for the retention of foot ball, not a single director or officer of the association was present, and of the members of the eleven, only three, including the captain, attended the meeting. These are the men who have been selected to care for the interests of foot ball in Harvard college.

Now, thanks to the faculty, we have been granted a month's respite. Whatever steps are to be taken in influencing the faculty to allow us to play intercollegiate games, must be taken within the present month. Although we do not wish to dictate to the officers or directors of our foot hall association, we would respectfully suggest to these energetic gentlemen that now is the opportunity for which they have evidently been waiting, that now is the time for them to show the college that large amount of energy which they have been so industriously accumulating for the last few months.

If we are to be allowed to play games with other colleges, some action must be taken before the foot ball convention. The association should hold a meeting at once and instruct its delegates as to the nature of the changes which Harvard should attempt to pass in the convention, and then, perhaps, we shall be able to convince our faculty of the safety and propriety of a remodeled game of foot ball. We might at least make the attempt.