A dry editorial in the Harvard CRIMSON of February 4th observes that the Pennsylvania "reform movement in sports should not be taken as the only panacea for athletic ills." Not all universities, declares the CRIMSON, profoundly, are faced with the need of reducing their athletic councils to a position of complete dependence upon the faculty; and anyway, this business of making coaches automatically members of the teaching staff "will not produce athletics for all, or even remove all the professionalism."

The CRIMSON baldly states that "the Pennsylvania athletic system has been for some years in need of revision" and concludes that the reforms initiated by President Gates are fairly obvious not too impressive and long overdue.

That this sort of nonsense should emanate from the great and powerful university at Cambridge, and worse, that it should appear on what has often been called the most mature undergraduate editorial page in the country is indeed sad, sad stuff. A CRIMSON editor, up for an original idea or comment, decided to be nonchalant. Instead of reaching for a Murad, he reached for the dictionary and the result is one of those stupid editorials that try to be different and end in being ridiculous.

The CRIMSON has missed the important points in the new plan at Penn. These have already been indicated here and elsewhere. What is so encouraging about the doings at Penn is that one college has finally thrown into action the words of the wise that had previously been words and precious little else.

An athletic leadership has been established at Penn, a leadership that will, we feel sure, be respected and followed throughout the country in a remarkably short time. Whether the method outlined by Penn to deracinate the sports evils is suitable for other universities is not important. What is important is that a brand of practical athletic progressivism has been unleashed in Philadelphia that has been needed there for a long time and still is needed at most other large universities.

The trouble with the CRIMSON, we suspect, is that its editors awoke one fine morning this week to find their alma mater outdone for once in a matter involving undergraduate reform. Instead of haling Penn, a genuine leader in this respect, the CRIMSON boys tried to be sarcastic. It is unfortunate for them that their intended sareasm resulted in a sort of stupidity rarely displayed in their editorial columns. Cornell Daily Sun.