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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Let's have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school man who now sports a car around Cambridge not only went out for athletics at school but was, perhaps, a very brilliant athlete. What reason have we to suppose that because he buys a car at college, his legs shrink to the size of spindles, while the proportions of his chest are reduced to concavity?

In most prep schools, unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than a muscle-making machine and as such they are far inferior to chestweights or dumbbells. William H. Ennis '27.