In accordance with a retrenchment policy adopted by the Athletic Association last June, the Yale teams will not take their regular Southern trips this year. This move is a very sound one economically, but it is most important as a sign of the new status which athletics will hold at Yale under the new colleges system. Here is a definite step in the direction of sport for the sake of the game instead of the University.

There is a possibility that the same words may soon be used in talking about Spring football. Word has come from Harvard that it has been abolished there; that is, the Athletic Association has voted to suspend formal practice, the object being to reduce the emphasis on football. The News, much to the anoyance of those who oppose 'retrenchment," has frequently clamored in the past for just such a suspension of formal practice, but has clamored in vain.

Now that Harvard has actually taken the lead in stepping off the edge, there is some chance that Yale might follow. The old argument about our not wanting to be the only ones will no longer hold water. The question of being handicapped by lack of practice will lack importance in one of our most vital contests. The advantages of scrapping the Spring sessions have been too often enumerated to bear repetition. The most important consideration in this case is that such a move would fall in line with the new retrenchment policy, which favors informality rather than gate receipts. A player will not feel in duty bound to attend Spring practice to the exclusion of other activities which he might prefer at that season. Participation, if any, should be entirely voluntary; and to this end, we move that Yale follow Harvard in abolishing formal Spring practice. -Yale News