The statement contained in today's CRIMSON concerning the inauguration of an Undergraduate Athletic Council must certainly please those who have seen in the changes in athletic policy under Director Bingham progress, decidedly of the right kind. Here as in other similar movements one notices the tendency toward unity and toward emphasis on undergraduate control of undergraduate matters, especially in interests of an athletic nature.

Mr Bingham and those who are working with him are trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised.