DUTY TO VISITING TEAMS.

One of the most serious reproaches to which we lay ourselves open is our treatment of visiting teams. In many cases they arrive in Boston, where they remain until they leave for the field, and after the contest, they return at once to their hotel or train. Their managers make all arrangements for their entertainment, and they rarely receive any of the little courtesies which are reflected in the resulting better feeling between the teams and the institutions which they represent. It would be unfair to many past managers to say that there have been no exceptions to this indifferent attitude. But the large number of managers, changing annually and under very little control, as well as the cool reception which some extensions of courtesy have met with at the hands of certain visiting teams, have tended to make the entertainment of these teams a very uncertain quantity. It is true that the size of Harvard and the diversity of interests here render impossible the sort of a reception which a smaller college could offer; but the present condition of affairs is due rather to irresponsibility of managers and lack of well-directed assistance than to any fundamental fault.

We owe a duty to visiting teams--one which should be a pleasure--to receive them as friendly enemies, and the committee which has just been constituted by the Athletic Committee can make itself very valuable by co-operating with over-worked managers. We bespeak for it the assistance not only of managers but of all undergraduates who realize our neglect, and have the time to do their part toward remedying it.