The prospect of an athletic meeting of Harvard and Yale against Oxford and Cambridge was at first sight very pleasing. It would be so still were it not that consideration of the challenge just received leads to the feeling that Harvard can hardly accept it without a breach of collegiate courtesy. The English colleges seem to have made no attempt to obviate the difficulties in the way of accepting the intercollegiate challenge sent them, but to have refused this without due reluctance, and to have made an entirely arbitrary selection of Harvard and Yale. In so doing they are guilty of a slight to the other colleges of the intercollegiate association, in which Harvard would, by her acceptance, silently acquiesce. It would be the more ungracious of her, since she did not in the games this year prove herself second best. Oxford and Cambridge, in replying to the intercollegiate challenge by a narrowed counter challenge, should, it would seem, have selected Yale and Pennsylvania, who hold the two leading places in track athletics. There certainly seems no adequate reason why a meeting like the one originally proposed by the American colleges should not have been arranged; but, as matters now stand, it is hard to see just how Harvard can fairly be one of two colleges to meet an English team this year.