The communication published in yesterday's CRIMSON appears to us to take a view of the dual league question which is theoretically admissible, but does not take into consideration the actual facts. Our correspondent is mistaken in writing,- "Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto." Unfortunately, we have no league in any sense of the word. In the present athletic crisis we need some definite understanding with Yale assuring annual contests between the two colleges. We cannot afford to withdraw finally from the Intercollegiate Athletic association without making some provision for future contests in a New England league or with Yale. The uncertainty in regard to this branch of athletics ought to cleared up. In other branches the need of a definite agreement may not be so pressing, but even in boating a written agreement has been found the most satisfactory. The provisions of this have been few and simple, but have arranged for the place of the annual race. Some arrangements should be made for the time and place of the other contests and a dual league would best provide for them. There is no reason to believe that a dual league would involve "red tape and cumbrous regulations." On the contrary the spirit of the Harvard committee appear to be opposed to any such state of affairs. If our correspondent believes that "more than half the college would favor no league," he has reached a very different conclusion from ours about college sentiment. We believe that the great majority of men are heartily in favor of a dual league with Yale.