Most of the glamour of intercollegiate athletics is linked with such big football contests as those between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and their absence this year has, in Princeton at least, tended toward a more sane and normal attitude toward athletics that is certainly most desirable. If this spirit be maintained with regard to every sport, and if some of the large overhead expense of coaching be done away with, the resumption of intercollegiate athletics is a wise course; but if athletics are allowed to interfere in any way with military training, either because of the demands on the time of those who are trying to make the teams or because the teams occupy too large a place in the life and thought of the undergraduates, it is better to seek some other method of physical training such as calisthenics. Daily Princetonian
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