The plan proposed by the Base-Ball Association for the regulation of expenses and the closer consolidation of athletic interests at Harvard, is worthy of praise. Doubtless, flaws will be found later in some one of the many provisions of this scheme, but in the main it is good. We would suggest that a clause be inserted providing that "no officer of any athletic association shall be a member of this committee." It would also be very desirable to have at least one member of the committee, a graduate, or some one of the instructors interested in college athletics. This was probably intended by the paragraph which makes it necessary for one member of the committee to be a permanent resident of Cambridge.

Some arrangement of this nature has long been needed here. It is a matter of universal belief that great extravagance is unavoidable in the present manner of conducting the expenditures of the various athletic teams. Therefore the proposition, we hope, will be accepted immediately by the other three organizations whose approval is necessary.