A HOPEFUL SIGN

Major Moore's announcement that the Princeton and Harvard freshman athletic teams will not meet each other in the future is of that type of news which might aptly, be characterized as "unfortunate but distinctly for the best." It is unfortunate in that it will curtail the number of times annually that teams from the two colleges are drawn together in athletic contests, and that curtailment will bring sincere regret to all Princeton and Harvard men. But it is distinctly for the best, in that it is a definite step toward reducing rather than over-emphasizing the importance of freshman athletic contests between distant colleges.

It is significant that the action comes with the mutual approval of both athletic committees who agree that the long trip involved and that the time consumed makes such contests not the most beneficial thing the freshmen might be doing. That attitude is a hopeful sign, especially when taken by the athletic committees themselves who have it directly in their power to say how often and how far the teams shall or shall not go. The attitude is one of weighing the true value, or rather lack of it, in such distant contests. If more athletic committees could be started along this same path of judging those faraway sport encounters which require an obvious loss of time, of money, and of energy, at their just worth, the problem not only of magnified freshman sports, but also that of over-emphasis on athletics generally, would be a long way, toward being solved.