THE MEETING TONIGHT

In asking the Athletic Committee at its meeting tonight to restore intercollegiate games, we do so for a reason greater than the satisfaction which we are able to derive from humbling other colleges. At present there are many men in the University who wish to take their exercise this spring in baseball, crew or track. These men select the sport which interests them most, and although they are not of the same degree of excellence as those who made up our teams formerly, they should not be denied the privilege of enjoying their chosen field because of this fact.

It has been found that some sort of organization is necessary to the successful maintenance of athletics. The informal system has not worked well, because it assumed an equality between fundamentally different teams. Such an equality was worthless because of its very artificiality. The one indispensable feature of college athletics seems to be the playing of intercollegiate games, for only in that way will teams of real equality meet.

Therefore, all we ask of the Athletic Committee is the restoration of the indispensable--the factor bringing success in our spring athletics. We do not petition for a blind return to the old evils. Let highly-paid coaches, extensive advertising, and the general commercialization of amateur athletics lie buried as they now are by the present war. A little longer and they may be stifled for good and all. A return to intercollegiate games does not mean a return to evils. A return to Intercollegiates does mean athletic attainment. It is for this we ask.