After a month of hemming and hawing and squirming about to the unparalleled delight of the sports writers, Yale's athletic authorities seem to have get up almost enough courage to tell the alumni where they get off and appoint a graduate football coach. There would seem to be no particular reason why Yale should not got a non-graduate coach if it wants to, but one wonders why it should take weeks and weeks of frantic effort--all chronicled in columns upon columns of type in the metropolitan press--to accomplish the purpose. The spectacle of a highly paid athletisc director and his assistants, to say nothing of the president of the University, scurrying down to New York every few days to interview prospects for a football coaching job, may furnish a topic of conversation for thousands of gonty graduates in hundreds of Yale clubs, but it is hard to see how it furthers the aims of the University.

Dartmouth, which is troubled by none of the scruples that make the life of a Yale athletic director so miserable, has solved her coaching problem to the beaming satisfaction of all except a few disgruntled but gracious Kay-dots. "I have come to the conclusion that football is more than a game," that pillar of the Boston Transcript, Mr. George C. Carens, quotes Dartmouth's President Ernest M. Hopkins as saying in justification of the Big Green's attack on the United States Army. "I think football is a symbol." President Hopkins is right, Football is a symbol. It is a symbol of all the over-emphasis of sports, all the distortion of values, which has characterized American colleges.