The new rules for athletics which went into effect on Monday will deprive our teams of some of their best men, but sober college opinion will realize, in spite of this, that they are for the best interest of the University. They will purify athletics without reducing them to a strictly undergraduate basis. Not only will they purify athletics but they will place restrictions on them which will keep them within bounds. It cannot be denied that there is an athletic craze today, a craze which quite outruns sober thought on the scholarly side of college life. Athletes themselves are too willing to let their college work go in order that they may secure places on 'varsity teams. They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner they will show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will preclude the possibility of a man's coming here simply for athletics and when men are on athletic teams they will have to keep up their regular college work. This practically reduces the evils of our athletics to a minimum, and for the present these rules will be sufficient to keep the matter in check. The future will probably make greater restrictictions necessary even, perhaps, to the abolition of intercollegiate contests, but for the present such radical changes are unnecessary.