GOLF AS A MINOR SPORT.

Minor sports receive support in the University, in material, interest and enthusiasm, to a greater extent than in most colleges. The principle of having teams enough for everyone who has the ability to make them is an excellent one; it is the best way to bring the greatest athletic good to the greatest number. However, the minor sports occasionally have a complaint to make about the support given them, especially in the way of finances. The golf team is the latest organization to want its athletic budget increased; it seems that the present appropriation does not pay the necessary expenses of the team, and the deficit must be made up by the members of the team. This is not fair to them; and it is not fair to other men who wish to play on the team, but who find that representing Harvard on the links is too great an expense.

While a sport that is confined to a few men and that has comparatively few followers in the University cannot expect the support a more popular sport receives, it has a right to expect that a reasonable share of its necessary expenses will be paid by the institution it represents. Golf comes under this head; the team has made a creditable showing and its complaint is not without justification.