THE NAVY YIELDS

The news that the break in athletic selections between the Army and Navy will be ended in the near future will be welcome not only to the members of the two academies but also to the great numbers of outside fans to whom the annual game was the climax of the football season.

Traditions the series of games had accumulate made it a precious one to the public and the display attached to the annual meeting of the two Institutions made it one in which they took a keen personal interest. The rupture between the two due to a dispute of whose merits few laymen could judge was bound to create a feeling of resentment, and no matter now unwarranted this may have been, its ending cannot, but meet the general approval.

The ethical rights of the question are less obvious. Limitation of a varsity player's career to three seasons is commonly accepted among colleges and the Navy's insistence on it last year was in accord with the policy of most athletic departments. But the record of Army-Navy games in the past shows no such preponderance of victories for the former as the bare facts of the case might indicate, and by withdrawing from their former stand the Annapolis authorities tacitly admit that such matters are domestic problems bas settled by the institution concerned. The Navy suffers no loss of honour by such a move but only shows a commendable consideration for the wider interests involves.