Note and Comment.

"The writer is convinced that there is much work for the reformer in the field of college sports; but can our college faculties remedy an evil whose causes lie in the decline in college sentiment? Undue waste of time they can easily and properly prevent by maintaining a rigorous standard of scholarship; into the rest of the field they can hardly venture, and prohibitory legislation must fail to touch the evil, while arousing resentment. The college communities themselves must work the change; and first of all it is necessary that they be brought to see the evil. In the first place gentlemen, in the second place athletes, should be the principle characterizing college sports; they should be engaged in by rivals and friends, not, as now seems to be the case, by rivals and foes."-[Mr. Ripley, in New Englander.