The conference committee has again met in New York with delegates present only from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Columbia, and after duly considering the hopeless situation of affairs has decided to leave the whole matter in statu quo, from which desperate strait each faculty is at liberty to rescue it as shall seem best to it.

The Harvard faculty has yet to consider this action and decide upon its course for the future. It seems quite probable that nothing will be done save to leave matters as they were last season with the prohibition against professionals still in force. This, it must be said, is a far more satisfactory state of affairs than would have been brought about by the impracticable set of regulations recently proposed. Yet it is a condition not altogether satisfactory. Harvard still lacks the services of a suitable director of field sports. If she had such a director the prohibition against employing any "professional" trainer would not be so severely felt. The attempt at inter-collegiate faculty regulation of athletics thus it would seem has signally failed. The Harvard faculty has blindly followed this ignis fatuus until it has led it into the swamp where it now finds itself. Little credit has resulted to the college from its efforts, undertaken, we believe, with the best motives, but lamentably misdirected and aimed at impracticable objects. We hope that the project of an inter-collegiate conference of undergraduates to meet at Columbia College the last of this week will but receive a new impetus from this failure of faculty interference. The Harvard faculty in common with some few others has persistently refused organized co-operation with the undergraduates in the reform of college athletics. It is possible that this inter-collegiate conference may be able to suggest changes and reforms in the rules and practices of our sports, which, being adopted by the several college and inter-collegiate associations, will lead to the elimination of all really objectional features from athletics, and may forestall any further restrictions on them by the more determined of the college faculties. We are sure that such a convention would be very ready to receive and act upon any suggestions for practical reform offered to it by any of the college faculty