President Eliot, we learn, wishes it to be understood that the faculty is far from giving up its project of the inter-collegiate regulation of athletics. The faculty, it is claimed, were chiefly influenced in reconsidering their recent action by the attitude of other colleges, which seemed to be generally unfavorable to the regulations as they stand. It will again make determined efforts to secure the passage of the regulations in a modified form, however, so that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy an attitude of doubtful patience. We are not aware that conference or co-operation with them has been proposed, notwithstanding the obvious arguments in favor of such a course. Indeed we have heard it stated that some votes in the faculty were cast in favor of the regulations, at the time of their first consideration, under the impression that they were earnestly desired by a large majority of the students. This impression we hope the recent mass meeting has corrected. We are also led to believe that the arguments presented in the petition from the athletic societies have had their due influence. And yet both mass meeting and petition have been criticised by members of the faculty as both unwise and unwarranted.