The Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return.

We can only congratulate Harvard and the other colleges interested on the latest action of Harvard's faculty. Let us hope too that foot-ball, having successfully passed this crisis, will hereafter be upheld, without interference, for better or for worse by all colleges that have fostered the sport."

On the same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under the revised rules, is one that can be indulged in with profit and pleasure. We are glad that the games played this fall have shown that it is something mere than an exhibition of brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does not depend on weight for the make-up of her teams. We are not certain that the papers would not have spoken differently if Yale had won. But that is a matter for conjecture only. Harvard will undoubtedly put a freshman team in the field, and thus the problem which presented itself at the beginning of this year will never have to be solved again. We trust, however, that the spirit of improvement which has animated foot-ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been in the foremost rank of reform, and on this account also we are glad of her re entry."