It should be noticed that the vote of the Athletic Committee in regard to the baseball dates with Princeton and the last game with Yale was directly in accordance with the unanimous views of the baseball Graduate Advisory committee. This committee is made up of men who have had a long and varied enough experience with Harvard baseball affairs to know what is the best possible course for this important branch of athletics.

Although we are not in a position to know all the reasons which influenced the Advisory Committee, the probable causes seem clear enough at a glance. The simple fact was that the dates as arranged came far too early in the season. At that time Harvard's season is only just begun; and important contests with Princeton could not be a correct test of the final strength of the two nines. Although games with Princeton would in all likelihood strengthen our nine, we have to be careful, in arranging them, that Harvard play under fairly favorable circumstances. The dates and conditions as arranged put Harvard at a decidedly disadvantage in regard both to the outcome with Princeton and the result of the first game with Yale, coming as it did less than a week after the wear and tear of a series with Princeton. Such, it seems to us, were the probable reasons for declining the dates with Princeton. This action, however, does not apply that a series of dates later in the season may not be arranged.

Again, to the arrangement that, in any case, a fifth game be played with Yale at Springfield, the objection would seem obvious. If the championship has already been decided, a fifth game is entirely without interest; and the proposition, moreover, to play it at Springfield where the grounds were found to be wretched is fully as ill-considered. Of course, in case of a tie, a fifth game will be arranged; but we hope it will be on suitable grounds.