With due regard for our esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, in its efforts to further the boating interests of the college, we feel compelled to take issue with it for an opinion expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need all the aid, instead of the discouragement, which it can get. If foot-ball can live through such a year as next year promises to be, it can live through anything. With the best clubs of eastern Canada to play against, instead of the American college teams, our eleven will not want for adversaries worthy of their best efforts. After a season of playing against the Canadian clubs the faculty may relent and allow Harvard to take its place once more in the inter-collegiate association. Foot-ball is too noble a game to die out without a struggle, and under the guidance of the new advisory committee on athletics it will not be strange if such a favorable future as we predict falls to the lot of the game at Harvard.