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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The new financial policy of the Athletic Committee must result in the serious crippling, if not in the complete extinction, of many of the so-called "minor" teams; for, with all the calls that are made on the undergraduate's purse, it will probably be found impossible to obtain an increase in subscriptions sufficient to offset the withdrawal of the financial support heretofore given them by the Committee. The crippling of these teams would be a great pity, for in a University the size of Harvard the four major sports cannot furnish a large enough field for a fair proportion of the men anxious to take part in some form of regularly organized sport. Hockey, lacrosse, and cricket are all fine games in themselves, and have in the past furnished a great deal of good sport and exercise for those taking part in them. There has been in recent years a steady increase in the undergraduate interest in these sports, not only in Harvard, but in other colleges, and probably if encouraged for a time they will eventually be able to stand on their own feet. But such a blow to them now as would be dealt by the new policy of the Athletic Committee would be nearly fatal to some if not to all of them. As a rule the minor teams represent the University in a way that is far from bringing discredit to it; this year the record in hockey, lacrosse, and tennis was especially creditable.

The policy of the Athletic Committee of economising in order to reduce the debt on the Stadium and gradually to reclaim the whole of Soldiers Field is an admirable one, but if the ground available for sport is to be increased at the cost of extinguishing many of the teams that would play on that ground, doesn't it seem that it might be better to go a little slower on the improvements, and let the growth of diversified athletic interests keep pace with the growth of available playing grounds? Nearly everyone feels that now-a-days there is far too much concentration in university sport at the best, and surely any curtailing of the activities of minor teams is one step more in the direction of this concentration, whereas any increase in their activity means a spreading of the benefits of the athletic life of the University, and an increase in the number of men who can partake of them. JUNIOR.