The action of the intercollegiate foot ball association, detailed in another column, is certainly as far as it goes highly commendable. Its purpose obviously is to guard against the introduction of professionalism into college athletics and to minimize the possibility of graduates returning to college solely for the purpose of joining athletic teams. The action now taken has long been needed, and will, we hope, fully accomplish its purpose. College athletics have been slowly but surely assuming the character of professionalism-have, in other words, been gradually assuming a position which they have no right to occupy. It certainly would be far better that they should be abolished than that they should ever reach this stage. Just as soon as college games demand the active participation of graduates, just as soon, that is, as graduates return to college solely for athletics, just so soon intercollegiate contests have ceased to have a purpose. It is to preclude the possibility of this danger that the present action has been taken; and to it we must look for whatever improvement is to come. It is to be regretted that the committee could not have gone even farther, and confined athletics simply to undergraduates, but this obviously could not be done, for it would be impossible to impugns the motives of graduates returning to college. The present rules therefore seem the wisest and best that could have been made under the circumstances.