MEN ON PROBATION

Despite considerable agitation this fall for a change in the attitude of the Dean's Office toward men on probation playing with the House Football team against Yale, very little has been accomplished. When the Winthrop House team went to New Haven they were told that they could not use men on probation until an agreement with Yale had been reached, and these orders were scrupulously observed. Yale, however, was permitted to use five players who were on probation.

The only objection which the Dean's Office raised to the proposal to let these men play was that Yale would have to be consulted. Yale has obviously decided to adopt an independent course of action; this leaves no obstacle in the way of liberalizing the rules here. Since all those concerned, including the Dean's Office, have admitted that the change would be desirable, the present equivocal attitude should be abandoned, and an announcement made that men on probation will be allowed to participate in the Yale engagement.