The action of the college at the mass meeting last evening needs little comment. There were two distinct issues before the students, one based on the past, the other on the future; but only in the former was any binding action taken. Harvard has decided to withdraw unconditionally from the football league, and this is as it should be. By so doing she has put herself on record as the champion of purity in intercollegiate athletics. Whatever may be the result of her action, she has assumed of her own accord an independent position which cannot successfully be challenged.

It is inevitable that Harvard's withdrawal should bring up for discussion the long-mooted question of a dual league with Yale. Of the ultimate desirability of such a league there can be no doubt. At the same time it is fortunate that no definite binding action was taken upon this question. While the sentiment of the college is justly in favor of a dual league, the details of that league are of too considerable importance to be settled at once. The provision that any action of the football board, to whom the question was entrusted, shall be subject to the ratification of the college is, therefore, a wise one. When the preliminaries of a dual league are settled, it will then be time for the college to take definite action.