ACTION OF ATHLETIC COMMITTEE.

The Athletic Committee has met, the swimming is abolished. One more of the excellent minor sports which provide for the physical development of the undergraduates is gone. Although we are sorry to see swimming removed from the list of winter sports, we are compelled to accept the decision of the Athletic Committee as wise. Such success as has come to Harvard teams in the past has been due to individual excellence of the men rather than to any systematic training. We have long dwelt on the fact that there is no suitable swimming tank in Cambridge, and as a result our teams have not been properly trained or conditioned when they have entered contests. It is, furthermore, true that the inadequate facilities necessitate an undue amount of travelling for the teams. Under these present adverse conditions--all due to the lack of a swimming tank--the sport cannot now be followed with any credit to the University, and it was therefore wise to withdraw from the intercollegiate league. Although this withdrawal amounts practically to the abolition of the sport, it is only temporary, and we hope that the time is not far off when adequate provision will be made for the development of a creditable team.