By its action last night, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has shown that it will take no measures tending to harm any sport at Harvard. This principle, on which the athletic committee is working, accounts for the breaking of the New England rule for the benefit of the H. A. A. If this policy of the athletic committee be borne in mind, it will be seen that there is no inconsistency when the committee allows the H. A. A. to compete in New York, and at the same time adheres strictly to the rule with baseball and football. It is possible for the baseball and football teams to meet, within New England, their best rivals; and so keep up the highest interest in these sports. On the other hand, it is impossible this spring for the H. A. A. to meet worthy rivals in New England.

It was a question of allowing the H. A. A. either to go to New York this spring, or to take part in no college track athletic matches. If the latter course were pursued, track athletics would suffer a blow as severs as did football in the year when Harvard was allowed to play no matches. The athletic committee, therefore, in order to maintain its principle of injuring no branch of athletics at Harvard, has taken the only course open to it.