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Today the delegates to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will meet in New York to make arrangements for the games to be held the last Saturday in May. Several important matters will come up for decision. The most pressing of these, as we understand, are the questions of adding, as events, the two-mile safety-bicycle race, and the putting the weight (56 pounds), and of excluding the tug-of-war. This last question is really the one which will most affect Harvard if she continues to be a member of the Intercollegiate Association. Harvard's attitude on this matter is well known. For the last two years here at Cambridge a feeling against tug-of-war has been growing; and the strong sentiment is for abolishing the tug-of-war as a college sport. As long, however, as the other colleges continue it, Harvard should be represented by a team. While she remains a competitor in the "Mott Haven" games, her chances of winning the cup will be much lessened if she be not entered in every possible event.

Harvard, then, would like to abolish the tug-of-war as being a dangerous sport. It seems probable, however, that the smaller colleges will vote solidly against such a movement. A solution of the question would be for Harvard to hold annual games with Yale in track athletics as she does in boating. Such a course would by no means prevent Harvard from meeting the other colleges if she saw fit.

Our attention has been called to the fact that the course of lectures on English History by Professor Cooke and the College Conferences come on the same night. So seldom is an opportunity given for hearing such interesting lectures as Professor Cooke's, that it is unfortunate that they should be broken into by the College Conferences. The College Conferences, however, have always been held Tuesday evenings; and as they are more or less a fixture in the University, it is not right to ask for a change of their date. Such being the case, we hope that Professor Cooke will, if possible, make arrangements to give his lectures on some other evening in the week rather than on Tuesday.

His series of lectures is to continue during the month of March, and if the conflict between them and the College Conferences is not removed, we fear both courses of lectures will suffer.