Nearer a Football Conference.

College football "reform" is not retarded by the reply of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council to the proposals of President Hopkins....

In its reply to President Hopkins the Dartmouth Athletic Council sees "no advantage to any one" in undergraduate cosigning solely, and finds "a decided difference of opinion" about allowing only sophomores and juniors to play on varsity teams. The Council thinks well of a discussion with other colleges of the whole subject of football. It makes in its turn proposals to remove "the intensity at present applied to the development of varsity football teams."

When President Hopkins made his suggestions they were received unsympathetically by football officials of Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, Even Harvard was cold. The Yale officials made no comment, but it was intimated that Yale would not oppose a conference of Eastern universities to consider athletic changes. The Dartmouth Athletic Council having come out strongly for such a meeting, there is likely to be a free discussion of the program. It certainly brings "reform" to the front--New York Times.