1. Matches are prohibited before 1 o'clock on Saturday and 4 o'clock on other days.

2. No college club or athletic association shall play or compete with professionals.

3. No person shall assume the functions of trainer or instructor in athletics upon the grounds, or within the buildings of the college, without authority in writing from the committee.

4. Students competing in games must have a prior physical examination, and be declared physically sound.

5. Match games outside of Cambridge must be played on Saturday, unless special permission otherwise be had.

"Such being the present state of affairs the following changes appear to me advisable:

1. That the committee be simply advisory in nature, with neither powers nor responsibilities, and existent for the purpose of furthering an exchange of views between all college interests, and of preventing misunderstanding. That it adopt "recommendations." and not "rules" for the students.

2. That the faculty regulations 1, 4 and 5 be continued as rules furthering the general education and health of the students, over which the faculty proper have supervision.

3. That the faculty regulations 2 and 3 be repealed and abandoned, and that the faculty resign full control of athletics to the students, subject to advice from the committee.

4. Furthermore, that the changes be made suddenly and in order, that their combined effect may powerfully revive the interest of athletics in the college.

"The first thought in the minds of the opponents to such a proceeding is that it would simply prove a return to "professionals." Likely enough the students would learn their sports from the best teachers, as most people of sense do learn. There are few attainments of body or mind that have not to be taught the learner by persons more proficient than himself, and it places no mark of evil on the teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There is no tennis court without its professional "marker" in England or any other country, and that in a game distinctly less savoring of "professionalism" than any other sport in the world. Throughout athletics and pastimes trained guides are everywhere deemed necessities for the beginner, from countries across the ocean right to Harvard's doors. Is it peculiar to one college that such influence be bad, and that the college the most refined and antagonistic to vulgarity of any in the country?

"But there is another and more important point involved in the change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty. If the tone of Harvard is today one of indifference, and if that has been brought about by the chain of events as I have related, let there be a sudden check, and the whole system will commence to roll in another direction. A sudden and energetic in ignorating needs to be wrought upon the whole athletic atmosphere of the college, where the interference of the faculty has been only too keenly reflected by the indifference of the students. That change must bring it straight before the students that athletics are now in their own hands, that it rests with them to bring out the best results from the best material in the land, that a college devoted to extravagance cannot be a dwelling house of strength and the, letic skill, and that hard work on the part of some and strong interest and support on the part of the rest will alone bring the success that is looked for as a necessity. The blessings of such a spirit in college life cannot pass unperceived, and the method to attain them is as plain.