There seems to be a very general impression abroad that there is something radically wrong with athletics here at Harvard. As a matter of fact there is nothing the matter with athletics here. Radical changes in all departments have characterized the history of the university in recent years. These changes brought about a crisis in our athletics, and gave them a decided set-back; but it was a needed set-back, one which served to eradicate many of the serious faults of the old athletic system. From it athletics started forward under an essentially new system, and the many defeats we have suffered were to be expected. But our athletic condition has been steadily improving; at present the general tendency is healthy, and all that could be desired. The lack of success in recent years has not left us in the lethargic and apathetic condition which so many people seem to imagine. There has seldom been so much earnestness, energy and purpose in the athletic spirit of the university; we are going to work very seriously to make our athletic teams of the future more successful in their contests with the representatives of other colleges. It is useless to hope that the old class feeling, and the intensity it gave to the athletic spirit, will ever come back; nor is it desirable that it should. Our athletics must in the future be conducted on a broader basis than they have been in the past. They are now rapidly coming to be regarded as one of the means to the great end of education-broad and systematic culture of all the faculties-and not as an end in themselves, worthy of cultivation for themselves primarily. This, of course, subordinates them to all things more important in securing the real end of education, but at the same time gives them a dignity as one of the means to that end which they never possessed before. All in all, the condition of athletics at Harvard has never been more satisfactory than at present.