Harvard undergraduates have shown, during the last few weeks, that they have the real welfare of Harvard athletics at heart, and that they understand the best way in which the standard of athletics may be raised. A few weeks ago it was announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest.

It now seems that some Harvard undergraduates, prompted by a desire to increase the competition in baseball between the preparatory schools, have offered a cup which is to be played for by the winner of the Exeter-Andover game and a nine picked from the schools around Boston. The action of the Harvard men cannot be commended too highly. A majority of the graduates of the schools likely to be in the interscholastic baseball association enter Harvard, and the result of the increased competition between these schools will surely bear in a strong and direct light upon the success of Harvard's baseball interests.

The good effect on the schools themselves will be immeasurable. The Harvard men who have offered these cups have done it for the best interests of both their college and the preparatory schools. We hope that the schools will not fail to recognize this fact, and will leave nothing undone which will contribute to the success of the new association.