A JUST OPINION.

The Transcript sums up the athletic situation very well when it says: "The extent to which the faculty of a college is justified in attempting to regulate the out door sports of its students is a difficult question to decide. On the whole, it seems as if the Harvard faculty, with the most laudable intentions, had tried to do too much. Castiron rules to cover every kind of sport, with members of the faculty authorized to superintend all inter-collegiate contests, convey the impression that the students must be a very headstrong and indiscreet set of young men to need such careful watching. A simple set of rules providing that professional athletes shall not be employed to instruct undergraduates, that no games shall be played with professionals, and that the rules of foot-ball shall be modified so as to do away, as far as possible, with brutality, might have been received with favor by other colleges. As it is, it looks as if a Chinese wall were being built around the Harvard students.