The track athletic question with Yale is at last settled, and Harvard has under the existing circumstances done, we think, the best thing. The negotiations had been dragging on for a long time; and as Yale still refused to held the contest as early as May 14, Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates of the two colleges had arranged between Harvard and Yale with so much care and with such sanguine expectations. Rather than allow these athletics such a set back, Harvard has chosen to break into her college work and grant Yale the benefit of a week's more training.
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