We regret much that an editorial in yesterday's issue was open to misinterpretation. We wished to urge upon athletes the truth that, in order to do their best work, they must keep themselves in good physical condition out of training season as well as during it. We said that athletes ought not to lower their physical condition in any way, and specified over-diligence in studies as one possible way in which this might be done.

Now it was the last thing in our thoughts to imply that we considered that study should be subordinated to athletics, rather than athletics to study. It is simply an undeniable fact that some men do injure their health by excessive study; cases are not unknown of students who were made ill by a little light exercise in the gymnasium. It is as a corrective to this tendency that athletics find their chief justification.

The CRIMSON holds fast to the belief that the object of a college course is a sound mind in a sound body. Attention can be devoted wholly to developing neither one with advantage to the individual. Balance is essential in this as in all other things. Looking at the matter from a point of view given by athletics, the editorial pointed out the possibility of undue mental work, but we should be quite as earnest, in looking at the matter from the point of view given by studies, to urge the possibility of undue devotion to athletics.

Indeed, for that matter, we do not hesitate to say that in our opinion college men are much more apt to lose their balance toward athletics than toward studies, and that the present need is for men to recognize that athletics are the means, and studies the end. Some men, however, do lose their balance toward studies. It was those men to whom we referred in yesterday's editorial.