On February 21 to 23 the National Championship Squash Tournament is to take place at Buffalo, N. Y. To judge by its season's record, the Harvard squash team will stand an excellent chance to win the national championship, if it competes.

The Harvard Athletic Association has a ruling that minor sports teams shall not go on trips outside of New England. On the whole it is a wise rule, but it will be extremely unwise to hold to it in the present case and prevent the squash team's entering the national tournament. It will be argued that to make an exception in favor of squash in this emergency will create a precedent. This is evasion, not reasoning. There will be no precedent unless, when future cases arise, the Association chooses to consider it as such. The rule is good enough for general policy, but when all considerations plead for an exception, as they do in this instances, it should not stand in the way.

If intercollegiate athletics have any merits they all argue in favor of the Buffalo trip. The time could not possibly no more opportune: the 21st is a Saturday, and the 23rd a holiday. Yale's squash team is definitely entered. A canvass of Harvard undergraduates will show unanimous agreement in favor of giving the Harvard squash team the chance it deserves at the national championship.