We hope that our readers are following with as great satisfaction as we are the countrywide discussion which followed the publication in the Independent of November 7 of George Owen's courageous article on football. If they are, they will realize that his article served as the opening gun in a campaign which may well revolutionize the game as it is now conducted in our great universities and restore it to the place of normalcy which it should occupy in the life of the undergraduate.

The most encouraging, but nevertheless, surprising development in this newly aroused discussion has been contributed by the undergraduate publications of several great Eastern colleges. Spurred by an editorial appearing in the Harvard CRIMSON which, after deploring the absurd overemphasis now placed on intercollegiate football contests, advocated such drastic reforms as sharply reduced schedules, abolition of scouts, spring practice, high-priced admission tickets, and sectional championships, while encouraging interclass games and coaching by graduates only, the student dailies of Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest, if not the most vociferous viewpoint of the undergraduate bodies, and we congratulate them for the courage with which they have stopped into a fight destined to engender much heat, and not a few casualties before it is concluded. The Independent.