The Spirit of the Times of April 10 under the heading of "Physician Heal Thyself" quotes from a recent editorial in the CRIMSON on the loose manner in which our athletics are reported in the outside press, and comments as follows: "And yet this apostle of accuracy and judgment continues to prattle about the Mott Haven team,' "the Mott Haven Cup,' 'going to Mott Haven,' competing at Mott Haven,' etc., etc." Now in the first place, if the Spirit of the Times knows more about college athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate as to college custom and precedent, we will succumb. And in the second place, if differences of usage on the mere name of an athletic organization can possibly be compared with inaccurate, ridiculous and often even irritating reports about individual students comprising that and many other organizations, then we will doubly humiliate ourselves. But as the case is now, we think the Spirit has no cause but a quibble, and no just reason at all for its remarks. Any one who reads the press of the colleges at large knows what Mott Haven means. In all the principal colleges the teams which train for these contests are called "Mott Haven teams' as is proper, and any other name for the cup would not be recognized.

An amusing circumstance in this connection is the fact that the following clipping is taken from the same issue and the same page of the Spirit on which their criticism of us occurs. "Yale's chances for winning the cup at the Mott Haven games this spring have been greatly lessened by the withdrawal of H. S. Brooks and Hamilton from active athletics." The italics are ours.