The letter of a Harvard graduate which we reprint from the Yale News offers a possible and perhaps a timely solution of the foot ball difficulty. The proposition made is briefly as follows: That Yale shall withdraw from the foot ball league, at the same time make a proposition to Princeton that she shall withdraw, with the added stipulation that if Princeton does not comply Yale will see no further obstacle to the formation of a dual league with Harvard. The plan as it is here proposed is at least a fair one, and leaves an honorable opportunity for the three colleges concerned to come to a satisfactory understanding. There are two possible objections, however, to Harvard's acceptance of this scheme. The first of these is that as stated it offered no check to professionalism and to the return of graduates to college simply for athletics. From the stand which Harvard has already taken her position on this point is not at all doubtful. She certainly cannot afford to enter any league which does not preclude the possibility of such abuses. But stringent rules could easily be adopted to avoid this possibility, and if this were done, certainly Harvard's first objection should be answered. It remains, then, to consider Harvard's second argument against the scheme proposed. Does Harvard, after the stand which she has taken, wish to consider any proposition whatever save that of a dual league. The answer to the question is not easy. And yet this is certain, that the action that Harvard has thus far taken is a half way action, that she should either have postponed the question of a withdrawal, or else have withdrawn from all athletics. The former alternative is now out of the question-the latter only remains, and there is certainly much to commend this. The position in which Harvard stands today is in danger of becoming equivocal. By withdrawing entirely from any systematized intercollegiate athletics, Harvard would occupy a completely defensible and consistent position. It looks, more over, in view of Yale's growing reticence to broach the question of a dual league, as if Harvard's only course lay in a consistent and thoroughgoing withdrawal. In such a position neither her motives nor her actions could be successfully assailed.