A BOLT FROM THE BLUE

In deciding to rotate its final game of the football season with Princeton and Harvard, the Yale athletic authorities take a step entirely compatible with the independence every university must assume in its athletic policy. If, after generations of Harvard and Yale men have looked to the Crimson-Blue game to climax the season, the New Haven college now desires to close with Princeton, no one must question its right to do so. The Yale position is wholly tenable. However traditional the Harvard-Yale game has come to be in the present century, it is to be remembered that the Yale-Princeton game is older.

Yet this new policy, although defensible, is not understandable. For this reason Harvard men do not like Yale's action. Abruptly reversing, without explanation, a mutually pleasant tradition, the Yale athletic authorities have made a gesture unquestionably to be wondered at. Between friends reasons must be frankly stated. Yale is obligated to explain this action.