The vote of the Faculty on the abolishment of intercollegiate football, is extremely to be regretted, and will by a large majority of the students be heartily condemned. As the mere expression of a strong feeling in the Faculty, it is, to say the least, ill-timed, and is likely to do more harm than good. If, on the other hand, the vote is intended to have the effect of active interference in regulating football, it is now, of all times, uncalled for. We can not believe that the vote of the Faculty was the result of a sufficiently searching investigation into the nature of the evils attendant upon intercollegiate football, or the possibility of remedying them by action on the part of graduates and undergraduates interested in the game. This year, perhaps for the first time, even football enthusiasts have become convinced that there are many objectionable features connected with intercollegiate football which must be done away with if the game is to live. This has been very generally understood, though apparently not within the Faculty; it is proved by the fact that at the very time the vote was passed, football authorities were on the point of submitting the result of a thorough investigation into the injuries received by players during the past season, together with a number of proposed rules admirably adapted to prevent the repetition of such accidents. This is but one instance of a very strong disposition to reform football which has not been allowed a fair chance to take effect.

The Faculty have by their action, however that action is to be construed, encroached prematurely upon the province of the Athletic Committee. They have assumed, apparently without due knowledge, that intercollegiate football can not and will not be improved, either by the players themselves, or by a specially appointed Athletic Committee who are far better qualified to consider the subject than are they. On the strength of this assumption, they have taken action which we cannot but consider too hasty and wholly unjust. The blow which would be struck at the game of football itself by the prevention of intercollegiate contests, is one which can not at present be justified.