Our correspondent of yesterday, who criticized Yale, Harvard and Princeton for never starting fall football practice prior to September 15th, voiced an opinion which has been expressed continually since the agreement was first reached. Pointing to this "Obvious fault," he advanced the new hackneyed objection that these Universities are under a decided handicap when they compete in early season games with institutions which begin football a month or so before college opens. In suggesting a remedy he was no more original, merely-advising that these institutions now having the September 15th rule should join the big parade and call back football candidates just as early in the summer as other colleges.

The Princetonian feels that this correspondent has undoubtedly diagnosed correctly the discouraging showing of Princeton, Yale and Harvard in a great many early-season games. The cure he prescribes, however, seems a trifle absurd. These three universities as well as several other institutions, originally adopted the ruling because they considered it necessary if football was to be kept within the realm of truly amateur sport. It would, then appear far from sensible to forsake that principle simply in order to compete with and defeat colleges which do not respect the same or similar principles. --Daily Princetonian.