The two votes of the Board of Overseers will take a great weight of anxiety from the minds of those who love football. The prospects seemed so dark after the last of the recent Faculty votes, that the delight in their brightening is very great. It is pleasant to notice that the Overseers have taken a view of the intercollegiate football question which is identical with that of the students. They differ from the Faculty, as the students have differed, merely in thinking that the impossibility of remedying the present evils connected with football, has not yet been proved. Prove it, and they stand with the Faculty and students in asserting that intercollegiate contests must go. There is unanimity of belief throughout the University that intercollegiate football as it has been played, is for ever self-condemned.

In view of the Faculty's known opinions on the present question, it is further assuring to have the Overseers' interpretation of the statute law, leaving the decision with regard to the advisability of intercollegiate contests within the province of the Athletic Committee. The committee has the confidence of both graduates and undergraduates, and is thoroughly competent to meet the hard problems which are before them now that their action is likely to be unhindered. The plans for reform which they proposed in the letter submitted to the Faculty will undoubtedly prove far-reaching and in a high degree effective.

It is unfortunate that Harvard cannot by her own efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome. Yale men know enough of true sport to know that football does not now come under that head.

They will not have the stimulus that Harvard has in the fear of losing the game altogether, but there should be need of no greater stimulus than the gentlemanly resolution to play gentlemanly football. If Harvard and Yale gentlemen cannot now conclusively demonstrate their ability to meet as such on the football field, they will justly forfeit the privilege.