EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The air is filled with denunciations of our faculty. Indignation meetings have been proposed, and dynamite will soon be resorted to. If, in spite of these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics, and that it would therefore be best to check the evil while it was still in their power. Accordingly, they recommended the adoption of the resolutions, which are known to all of us, and which our faculty did not in the least hesitate to adopt. That they were justified in the action is evident, for the following reasons: Because they checked what was threatening to become a dangerous evil, and thereby complied with the wish of many present, and the friends of the college in general, raised the tone of athletics, lessened their cost, and made college athletics what they really ought to be, a mere recreation and amusement. It may be well, perhaps, to state here that the change in the distance of the Harvard-Yale race was adopted on the recommendation of Prof. Agassiz, Dr. Sargent and Mr. Watson, and although the change may have its advantages, our faculty ought not to enforce it until 1885, which likewise applies to other minor changes.

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