The announcement that Mr. Garcelon will resign at the end of the fiscal year as Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association calls for a review of his administration. The five years he has served in this position have been in many ways the most important of our athletic history. In no other five-year period during the last 25 years have we been so successful as in the last. Moreover, we have maintained an unbroken and unusually cordial relationship with Yale, in spite of having beaten her in more events than we have ever been able to do before over the same period of time. Throughout this period, our crews have made a clean sweep. In football with two 0 to 0 ties, we have won two games to her one. Moreover, in this sport there has been organized a system which, if we are fortunate enough to perpetuate it, will enable us to contemplate the future without undue anxiety. In track and baseball our record is only mediocre, but in the minor sports we have made a very creditable showing, excelling particularly in hockey. On the whole, then, so far as our prowess is concerned, it has been a period which we may be glad to duplicate.

In other important questions of policy, no one can deny that the last five years have put us much ahead. On matters concerning training tables, professional coaches, and the encouragement of students to take part in athletics, much headway has been gained. In the words of Dean Briggs in his report to the President, "Something has been done to spread the interest in athletic sports as exercise. Second and even third teams and crews have had informal games with our neighbors, and scrub teams give many students opportunities in hockey and baseball. Mr. Garcelon has tried to unearth lonely Freshmen, and, through physical exercise, to strengthen their bodies, clear their minds, and bring them into healthy association with their fellows. He maintains that a systematic effort would noticeably better the physical, mental, and moral condition of the whole class."

Reviewing the period as a whole, we feel that the verdict will be that most of the efforts by those in authority have been well spent, and that they have accomplished reforms which are bound to be lasting.