In Dr. Sargent's paper on the regulation of athletic sports, he states what he thinks will be the outcome of the athletic question, and the plan which will solve the question of the executive management of our athletics. In such management there have to be taken into consideration two elements, the existing interests and ideas as embodied in the undergraduates, and the past experience, the knowledge of which is possessed by the graduates. Both of these factors are of the utmost importance; the sports must be kept up to date, and yet, in order to avoid blind mistakes must be guided by the experience of what has gone before. The plan proposed to combine these two necessities, is briefly this: the committee which shall have the direct management of the athletic teams is to consist of the captain of the team, a graduate, and an expert coach; their arrangements are to be subject to the regulations of the Athletic Committee. While this in no way lessens the beneficial character of the Athletic Committee it insures in the management and directing of the teams a certain amount of uniform policy, which is a good deal needed. This policy of training could be worked out by the expert coach, and the graduate member from the experience of past years, and from the exigencies of the current season. By having a coach one year, who has devoted himself to the same work in the year before and the years before that, mistakes and unnecessary experiments are done away with, and a judicious, practical line of action is insured.

Of course the success of such a scheme depends a great deal on the character of the expert employed. On this point the fast growing tendency towards normal instruction in physical training is coming forward to provide the needed material. The new course in physical training in the Lawrence Scientific School, is intended to meet just this need, to educate men to be scientific instructors in the art of developing the body. Such men as these, college graduates, would be best fitted to carry out in a spirit of pure amateur sport, the trust training the men. There would be little fear of arousing a spirit which might be created by a "professional trainer." An exemplification of such a coach who takes charge of the teams year after year, is to be had in Mr. Lathrop. The success of the Mott Haven team is due largely to having the supervision of a man who, besides being in touch with the present, has behind him all the valuable experience of past years.