Mr. Walter Camp, the graduate in structor, and supervisor of field sports at Yale, does not turn out a success in every branch of athletics. He was engaged last fall to coach, not only the foot-ball eleven and base-ball nine, but also to teach the men track athletics. In the first two branches he was known to be an expert and made satisfactory progress in his work. A few days ago, the men interested in track athletics began to appear on the field, and Mr. Camp undertook to take them in hand and give them instruction. According to the papers he was found to be too inexperienced, and some of the men did not wish to go under his charge. The result is, that Mr. Camp confines himself to the nine, and the athletic association has hired Dole, their old professional trainer, to look after their track athletics and bicycle riders.

This state of things only shows how difficult it is to find one man capable of attending to all branches of athletics in turn. Our faculty have declared that they wished to find a graduate director of field sports. The failure of Mr. Camp, a man acknowledged to be fitted for just such a position, if any one was, leads us to believe that such a director cannot be found. Different instructors for the different sports will have to be engaged as hitherto, if Harvard intends to have her athletics looked after. College graduates are not likely to accept the small pay which such instructors would get, unless they may have some other occupation at the same time. Would it not be better then, to decide, once for all, to allow professional coaches of respectable character to be employed in those branches where there is obvious need of instruction.