PROMOTING MINOR SPORTS

The Minor Sports Council has embarked upon a commendable enterprise in attempting to improve the status of minor sports in the University. The plan to be considered,--the giving of a minor "H" to members of championship teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there is any connection between these two facts, it will be the new committee's duty to consider.

In so far as the proposed award to winning minor sports teams will result in stimulating competition for them, it deserves unqualified commendation. The success of the University's policy of athletics for all can usually be measured at any given time by the extent of participation in the minor sports.