It is frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can possess against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarians could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin "Review" furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the "Review," "the president of a neighboring college was in town over night, the guest of prominent citizens. He saw the large number of people that were upon the streets and inquired how large a police force the town had. 'None, whatever,' was the reply. 'But how are all these students kept in order?' was the next question. 'We have ladies in the institution.' The influence of the ladies is, indeed, great on the side of good order and gentlemanly conduct."

Here then is an opportunity for the Annex. We know of no stronger argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future. --reprinted from the HERALD-CRIMSON   February 20, 1884