We have published in our last two issues two communications, one from a graduate and one from an undergraduate, both of which complain of the students' passive submission to the Faculty on the question of football. The graduate takes no pains to conceal his sneer at the "budding humility" and "seemly modesty" which the Harvard man is so unexpectedly developing. Evidently anything of the sort is foreign to his own nature, or he would not have let his momentary anger find such hasty expression. There is something very childish in his obvious inability to appreciate the feeling which led to Captain Brewer's manly letter.

The undergraduate, on the other hand, treats the subject in a dispassionate way which is thoroughly admirable. We heartily agree with him that the strong sentiment of the College against the action of the Faculty should find expression; but we can hardly believe that the Faculty have been so unpardonably blind as to mistake even gentlemanly acquiescence for approval. They must know that they have entered upon a course which is condemned by the judgment of the entire undergraduate body and by a very large number graduates. Though they deliberately disregard the opposition which their action excites, they can not be unconscious of it. At any rate we see no very satisfactory way of forcing it upon their attention beyond the reiteration of what we have already said on the subject. We can assure them that the College is practicably unanimous in its disapproval of their proposed abolishment of intercollegiate football. In the face of this disapproval, their persistence is such an extreme exertion of their authority, involving as it does the setting aside of the athletic committee's wishes, is hardly defensible strong graduate and undergraduate opinion, especially that of an able and experienced committee such as Harvard has, should not be so lightly disregarded. For the present it would seem that the Faculty should be content to advise and not to dictate.