AUSPICIOUS

The long awaited resumption of athletic relations with Princeton has taken a more concrete shape than any official statement could give it with the meeting of the Harvard and Princeton polo teams last Saturday afternoon. For the first time in five years the two universities have met in a dual meet with the official recognition of both the institutions.

More favorable to Harvard than the score of the contest is the feeling that this occasion seems to have aroused in the rival university as expressed in an editorial from the Princetonian in an adjoining column. This continuation of the friendly feeling between the two institutions that has been growing during recent years and has resulted in the official and actual resumption of athletic relations should have further results than merely giving pleasure to those who have missed the customary Princeton-Harvard contests. It should impress the athletic authorities with a feeling which is so prevalent among the undergraduate bodies at both colleges and spur them on to making the resumption complete by the return of the Harvard-Princeton football games.

While, as the CRIMSON stated last month, football must be considered with care before action is taken, this is no reason that this subject should be tabled as too delicate a problem or as impossible of solution. The feeling aroused by this recent contest shows that undergraduate opinion favors a complete resumption. With this fact behind them the athletic authorities should be able to find some scheme suitable to both institutions.