AN UNJUST ACCUSATION.

In the February number of the Outing Magazine Mr. Caspar Whitney has come out with a vehement attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale and President Wilson of Princeton, all of whom give the semi-professional baseball player unquestioned freedom of their respective athletic teams," and concludes by saying that these presidents "could, if they had the courage or the desire, do precisely what President Tucker did at Dartmouth."

Although inclined to doubt seriously the condition that Mr. Whitney depicts at Yale and Princeton, we can speak authoritatively only of Harvard. Certainly here the summer baseball player and semi professional is not now present. The University takes pleasure in the geauine of its team. Indeed, if the semi professional were representing Harvard, it could not be attributed to President Eliot if he did not get his descries, for he speaks through ignorance who accuses the President of any lack of courage in such matters.