A year ago the CRIMSON urged an innovation in the conduct of freshman class meetings, which, when put in practice, proved to be a beneficial change. We refer to the election of temporary instead of permanent captains for the various freshman athletic teams. The advantages of this scheme are obvious. By the old system the election of freshman officers was often to say the least, hasty and illconsidered, and as a result the various teams were more or less handicapped in their subsequent work. By the choice of temporary captains, however, this particular difficulty may be obviated, for if these captains prove inefficient their places may easily be filled when the various teams once organized meet for their permenant election. A little reflection shows how much superior this method is to the method once in vogue. The freshman class with all its discretion cannot pretend so soon in its career to make the wisest choice at its elections, and it is with this in mind that we suggest to them thus early the advisability of electing temporary captains for all their athletic teams.

In this connection, too, another matter of quite as considerable importance presents itself. Last year the class of Ninety-two drew up a set of resolutions to govern freshman intercollegiate contests, and these resolutions were presented to Yale for consideration. Their purpose was to preclude the possibility of unpleasant complication in freshman athletics, and to to assure a greater degree of fair play than has been enjoyed in the past. Ninety-two has now passed on to its sophomore year and left to Ninety-three the duty of securing the adoption and enforcerent of these resolutions, and surely a matter of such considerable importance must not at this time be neglected. Freshman intercollegiate contests have too often been managed on the basis of sharp dealing, as those who have been long in college can testify; and it is high time that active measures should be taken to secure fair play to all concerned. Surely it were better that freshman athletics be entirely abolished than that the abuses which have at times characterized them be for one moment continued. We look to Ninety-three to assume the responsibility of the resolutions proposed last year by Ninety-two.