By thus limiting the grounds to be used the general participation of the students in these games is limited. Our grounds are now so small that every absence by the regular team is eagerly seized upon by the students to get up games between classes, societies, club tables, etc. In the spring and fall there is scarcely a foot of available ground which is not taken up for some sort of athletic sport, and everything which tends to prevent the overflow to other grounds limits the pursuit of the sport.

We should probably be prevented, by this rule, from playing some games with distant colleges, whose teams we could meet on grounds mid-way between both colleges. Deciding games, played on neutral grounds, would be contested under conditions more equal to both sides, and much time might be saved by shortening the distance to be traveled. Again, the grounds of some colleges-Brown University, for instance-are very poor, and we can see no objection to the use of other grounds near at hand, when available.

The seventh resolution provides:

"That no intercollegiate boat-race shall be for a longer distance than three miles."

We find this resolution, like number five, objectionable, as dealing with details which might better be left to the students or to their advisers, the graduate committee of the graduate committee of the boat-club, whose high standing and long experience in rowing, better fit them to decide all such matters.

Apart from the judiciousness of any detailed rule of this nature, we also object to this particular rule as it stands. Many old rowing men, and medical men, who have been consulted, and who are prepared to express any opinion, say that a three-mile race is apt to be more injurious to the members of the crew than a four-mile race would be. The reason for this is that although the strain lasts a shorter time, it is of a much more violent nature in a three-mile, than in a four-mile race,