The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has always entrusted to the intercollegiate sport coaches the problems of making and enforcing training rules for the particular sports in which Harvard competes against other colleges. Obviously in some sports training rules must be more severe than in others. In all sports, however, the punishment for breaking training rules must be the same, dismissal from the squad.

In these days there is a praiseworthy tendency for undergraduates, throught the medium of captain's and manager's critical reports at the end of a seasons, to suggest any corrections needed in Harvard sports. Fortunately for the Committee and the Director of Athletics, excellent suggestions have been made by such undergraduates and also by the undergraduate members of the Athletic Committee. Captains and managers have agreed to the broadness and wisdom of Harvard training rules which commonly are: no smoking, no drinking, ten-thirty bed hours.

Furthermore, Harvard undergraduates participating in intercollegiate sports recognize the right of the coach and his authority to make training rules, and the acceptance of these rules is made when the undergraduates report as members of a squad. No Harvard undergraduate can survive as a members of any intercollegiate sport squad if he does not desire to win, but is content merely with exercise.

Fortunately for the good of the nation's youth, the will to win is still a prized heritage, handed down from generation to generation of American life. Because the will to win is not confined to Harvard, but is an inheritance of an American people whose struggle for existence has never permitted a majority of the citizenry to live for the pure enjoyment of living, all teams which meet Harvard on the athletic field have the same goal of victory at stake.

Tolerance of an attitude of indifference to the physical preparations for such athletic contests would be an unpardonable shirking of the duty a college has towards its young men. It would be gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee entrusted by the Harvard Corporation with the regulation and conduct of athletic sports. Should the time come when a majority of Harvard undergraduates wish to abandon training as wisely determined by years of experience and supplant instead a policy of non-training, the time for with drawal of the college from all intercollegiate sports will be at hand. --The H.A.A. News.