The recommendation of the Student Council that House athletics be allowed to develop with the House Plan is reasonable. The section of the Council report printed in this morning's CRIMSON suggests that all teams not indispensable to the University teams be abolished and bases its argument on sound foundations.

Although it may be held that the extreme move advocated by the Council would undo much of the progress made by the attempt to establish "athletics for all", such action seems only logical amid the circumstances which will surround the final steps in the change to the House system. Many of the teams marked for abolition by the Council have no long traditions to argue for their retention in the face of the maladjustments which will be created by the full application of the House Plan. It would be a wise move to do away with their detraction from house teams while the latter are being organized. However, there will be limitations on the numbers of men who will be able to participate in inter-house contests, and the cases of the more popular sports the advisability of their reestablishment without the bounds of house circles should not be precluded.

Those who supervise the change from the present to the imminent system should act with boldness tempered by the realization that their policy may destroy the work already accomplished in the building of an organization of athletics in which there is room for all.