Official information has been received that the recent action of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences recommending a reduction in the number of Intercollegiate athletic contests, was taken in response to the following communication from the Association of Colleges in New England:

"At the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England at Cambridge, December 6, 1907, voted, to send to the various colleges represented in the association the following expression of opinion: That an exaggerated amount of attention is now being given to intercollegiate athletic contests in most of the New England colleges, and that to diminish this exaggeration the most effective measure would be a large reduction in the number of intercollegiate contests."