SCRUB HOCKEY.

As winter progresses we begin to wonder what has become of the scrub hockey series that gave exercise and amusement to a large number of men this time a year ago. To be sure the weather has not been favorable to hockey of any kind and at best there have been but two rinks available, one for the University squad and one for the Freshmen. Both these barriers are now removed, as winter seems to have settled down in earnest and the Freshmen play their last game next Saturday.

One of the principal reasons advanced by the Faculty in favor of cutting down the number of intercollegiate contests is a belief that intracollegiate athletics, giving an opportunity for every man to indulge in "sport for sport's sake," cannot exist beside the overwhelming interest in games between the colleges. They also believe that the undergraduates are not unanimously opposed to a curtailment of schedules. Every opportunity that is lost to disprove these beliefs helps just so much to defeat our own aims.

Experience has shown that scrub games are needed, that the undergraduates want them, and that there is plenty of room for them to flourish. There is every reason to hope that the hockey management will do its share and waste no time in organizing a series such as the one that proved so successful last year.