To the Editors of the Crimson:

We wish to warn every man in the University who intends to try for any athletic team that he must keep up in his studies. The work of developing a team has sometimes been lost and the team's prospects spoiled by the failure of a few men to keep off probation. The worst example of this was afforded by last year's Freshman baseball team. Out of the nine men who were considered the best for their positions in the class six were put on probation before the games with Yale. The responsibility for the loss of the Yale games is due in a large measure to those men, who, in failing to fulfil their College duties, failed also in their duty to their class. It would have been much better if such men had not come out at all, because the time spent in coaching them was a dead loss.

Members of the University and Freshman athletic squads must be absolutely regular in attending lectures while in Cambridge. Two years ago the Athletic Committee was obliged to make a rule preventing Freshman teams from playing outside of New England solely because of the number of cuts taken by members of the teams while they were in Cambridge. To the college athlete, academic standing is as essential as physical ability. H. BULLARD,   D. C. CAMPBELL,   B. WENDELL, JR.,   J. G. WILLIS.