We are sure that the communication from Professor Ames and the decision of the committee therein set forth will meet with the entire approval of the students. It is a perfectly frank, manly statement of the case which cannot but appeal to the highest sense of honor in our University community. The election of Wiggin to the captaincy of the nine, while an exception to the principle of strictly undergraduate captains, will be entirely satisfactory. Everyone has the greatest confidence in Wiggin's ability to take hold of the present situation in a business like way, and he may be sure of the heartiest support. Of the undergraduate principle, there is practically nothing to be said against it. Graduate students have not, as a rule, the time to give to athletics which the captaincy of a team demands. Even if they had time it is much better that the captains of the teams should come from the college, for the college is the real centre of the athletic activity. We look upon this decision of the committee with regard to undergraduate captains, as another step along the line of that sensible legislation in athletic affairs which Harvard has done so much to forward in recent years. The gratitude of the University is due to the committee for the wisdom and justice which it has shown in this and in all other matters which have come before it for consideration and decision.