The Athletic Committee has proved since its establishment that it is in many ways the best means for governing our college athletics that could be devised. Probably no university has governed its athletics in a more efficient manner, both in its local sports and in the management of intercollegiate relations, than has Harvard through this committee. The success in the diplomacy in the recent intercollegiate troubles proves its value as a smoothly running and efficiently working machine to carry on and regulate our athletic affairs.

This method of management has some minor faults, however, though not, we believe, irremediable. For one thing the students believe the extreme secrecy with which it conducts its affairs, particularly its intercollegiate correspondence, in a large part is unnecessary. They feel that the college athletics are primarily the affairs of the undergraduates, that the Athletic Committee is in a way responsible to them, and that they therefore have a right to know what it is doing in all important matters. They realize however that intercollegiate athletics are not conducted as frankly and openly as true amateur sport demands they should be, and concede that a certain amount of secrecy is unfortunately still necessary. But they believe that they should have been informed, for example, of the pending negotiations with Yale, and should have some knowledge of the progress of those negotiations which concern them so nearly. Some part of the correspondence it probably is advisable to with hold temporarily; but that students should receive from the Committee not an inkling that the very important negotiations are being carried on, and be obliged to get what imperfect knowledge of them they may from the New Haven and New York press is neither necessary nor right.

There is the further deplorable accompaniment of this secrecy, that in the absence of authoritative information, the newspapers often publish very erroneous and harmful reports.