The action of the Corporation in yielding Jarvis Field to the Tennis Association has created much comment. It will be generally regretted that football games will have to be held on Soldiers Field, but the inconvenience, experienced from the distance, will not be exceedingly large and will grow constantly smaller as we accustom ourselves to the change. On the other hand, the Tennis Association needed ground badly; the number of courts has been, in the past, inadequate to the demand for them, and this has hampered, and even wholly prevented, exercise by many students. We regard it, in any case, as more important that room should be made for students to exercise themselves, than for them to see others exercise; and, since in this case to make the one possible has not made the other impossible, we believe that the vote of the Corporation will be productive, not of unmitigated good, but certainly of more good than harm.

A discussion has started about the grandstands on Jarvis. At the beginning of the year it was expected that the field would be devoted to football until dormitories were built upon it, and permanent grandstands were therefore erected. Probably, however, no loss has been incurred through this. The difference in the cost of temporary and permanent grandstands is not large. It is estimated that a temporary grandstand for the Pennsylvania game, in the place of the permanent one, would have cost three thousand dollars, and forty-two hundred were all that were paid for the one we now have. The difference of the twelve hundred has been compensated partly by the larger attendance at smaller games which was attracted by the better stands, and partly by the value of the lumber now on hand. For this year alone the grandstands have been a good investment and the vote of the Corporation means no great financial loss.

In regard to the disposition of the grandstands, we are heartily in favor of having them moved to Holmes rather than to Soldiers Field. The cost of removal would be less, and both fields need grandstands. Those on Holmes are old, rickety, much repaired, and must soon be torn down. The stands at present on Jarvis would make an excellent substitute and would probably last as long as the field can be devoted to athletics. With Soldiers Field, the conditions are different. There grandstands of the first order ought to be erected. We think that much better ones even than those on Jarvis are needed. There will be the great athletic field in the future and the event of its ever being used for other than athletic purposes is too distant to be taken into account. There is an excellent chance for some friend of the University greatly to aid athletics by providing ample, comfortable, and substantial grandstands on Soldiers Field.