THE ATHLETIC COMMITTEE

Today the Athletic Committee meets to consider further but not to take final action on the question of abolishing intercollegiate athletics during the winter months. It meets without Dean Sabine, who suddenly announced his resignation just before the recess. The committee will undoubtedly feel his loss, but will in all probability battle through the present crisis with two, instead of three Faculty members. As yet nothing has been done about naming a successor; indeed, it is even probable that no appointment will be made until the new Committee derives its power from the Corporation a month hence.

Much as we all appreciate the great amount of work falling to professor Sabine's lot, we cannot, but regret his loss for purely selfish reasons. But its recent action the Corporation made possible the retirement of the Deans from the Committee, but we entertained a sneaking hope and belief that their efficiency, and the prospect of less work in the future, would secure their reappointment. Now at least one place on the Committee must be filled by a new Faculty member, who will be just as ignorant of what is necessary as were the Deans when their athletic management was forced upon them. We sincerely trust that the Corporation will make no new appointment in the present crisis, and that when the time for determining g the new Committee comes, that its graduate make-up will, so far as is possible, be left intact. Only so can any semblance of continuity be maintained; in no other way can the Committee be expected to legislate intelligently against the evils that are in need of correction, and that are so much more harmful than the present extent to which intercollegiate games are played.