THE PRICE OF SQUASH

The success of inter-house activities largely depends on the adjustment of details, trivial in themselves but important in the mass. Especially in the arrangements which the houses make regarding sports, uniformity should be the rule. The inter-house squash competition, just begun, offers an instance of conflicting arrangements which ought to be avoided.

Players from all the houses, with the exception of Lowell and Dunster, pay for the use of the squash courts at the time when they are used. But in Lowell and Dunster House, payment is deferred to the term-bill. Thus when players from other houses entertain their competitors from these two houses they are compelled to pay immediately, while the reverse does not hold. It is the multiplication of details such as these that causes friction.

In the effort to provide uniformity among the houses, emphasis should be directed toward these details. The individual characters of the houses will in any case tend to shape themselves, but smooth functioning as a unit depends on regulation of the minor points by the committee in charge of inter-house athletics. The fact that much of the organizing has been done more or less haphazardly by a few persons in each house is bound to cause divergencies. Under proper attention however, there is no reason why they should occur, or why they should not be corrected when they do.