The Nation again expresses its "oftrepeated conviction that the simple solution of the whole athletic problem lies in concentrating the interest of each college upon home sports, without regard to, or competition or contact with any other college." We must allow that this solution is in theory possessed of great simplicity, - a simplicity very similar to that offered us by the Faculty in their proposed remedy for the evils of intercollegiate football. But a solution must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests and no one can doubt that with the end of them would come the end of their abuses. Intercollegiate athletics have, however, far too much in their favor to be thus summarily abolished. That the Faculty and the Nation feel themselves unequal, as they must, to the task of reforming athletics, is no reason why they should refuse a hearing to those who are more willing and able to undertake it.