Unwarranted Leave-Taking.

[We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest.]

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I wish, through your columns, to draw attention to a flagrant abuse, on the part of certain participants in athletic sports, of their privileges in these sports. Of late years it has grown to be the practice for an athlete, upon the completion of a season in which he may have been engaged, to consider himself justified, for the purposes of "recuperating his broken health," in absenting himself, in nine cases out of ten quite unnecessarily, from Cambridge for a substantial period.

To those who give a moment's thought to the matter, it is not difficult to understand the attitude of the Faculty upon this question. That body quite rightly reasons that if athletics have come to such a pass that at the termination of a season an athlete must leave Cambridge to the serious detriment of his college work, then measures should be taken, in the way of cutting down schedules, to alleviate this abnormal physical strain upon the constitution of said athlete.

I am convinced that if an undergraduate sentiment which will tend to frown upon this practice of leave-taking can be created, a weighty argument against the continuation of intercollegiate athletics will eliminate itself. J. L. DERRY.