Athletic Informality a Mistake.

The "informal" system as originally practised by Yale, Harvard and Princeton, though well meant, has been widely censured as not furnishing the necessary incentive for athletics. For then University to "about-face" now, acknowledge that she was wrong and begin anew, will be no disgrace. It is the only logical step open.

That the University in has complete abolition of major sport teams has been in the wrong is useless to deny. It is hoped that those in control will be broad-mined enough to realize the mistake before spring and that we shall again have a baseball nine, a track team and a crew representing the University and taking part in outside contests under the West Point system.

The spotlight now rests quite naturally on Yale and Harvard, among the larger institutions the only remaining advocates of the "informal system," alone opposed to big games at this time. Will there now be a new expression from those two institutions of their views on the matter? Athletics of the stamp advocated by Secretaries Daniels and Baker and by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association do not call for a return to the glamor and expense of the old regime. Briefly they advocate a system somewhat similar to that in use at West Point, minimized running expenses, little practice and a team that represents the institution and which plays numerous outside games with teams. --Yale News