The report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers, which appears in the current number of the Graduates' Magazine, contains some important suggestions in regard to physical training. "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play in the athletic teams find no inducement to improve their physical condition. Thus a very large class take no regular exercise and it is by no means uncommon to find men, often students of gret promise, who leave college as much weakened in body as they are strengthened in mind." The committee expresses itself as strongly impressed with the great importance of encouraging all students to devote a reasonable amount of time and energy to the development of their bodies and general health, and favors a prescribed course of physical exercise during the Freshman year.

To us it seems that such a plan cannot but meet with general favor. The committee says only too truly that many men loose as much in vitality as they gain in mental strength while at Harvard, simply because they do not realize that a good body to work with is worth much more through life than a little extra cramming while in college. But this is not the only side. There are many men who do not take enough healthy exercise simply because they are too indolent. They not only wrong themselves but their college also. There are instances of men of only mediocre athletic ability in their Freshman year, who by steady work represent Harvard on 'Varsity teams before graduation. These set an example of perseverance which if more closely followed would do much to re-establish Harvard in her athletic supremacy.

Again we believe that if more of the 'Varsity men had a greater sense of responsibility the teams would not be so liable to overtraining. It is only too common to see prominent football men simply lying by after the season is over and growing flabby. When the season of their activity comes round once more it is not uncommon to find many in no sort of shape to take up their work again and simply through lack of what seems to the careless such a nonentity, a little regular exercise.