attained warrants the risk or the sacrifice. What we have gained from our ancestors is largely due to the expedient risks that they took in their time. We should in our turn take such risks. Our better understanding of the situation requires of us no more than care to see that we venture for some good

return.

As for the sports which are in some measure dangerous, it may be said that the dangers incurred in them are much like those of war; we find the warrant in taking them in the end which is sought. Where they distinctly make for health or serve to train men in swift co-operation under exciting conditions; when, in a word, they are highly educative, they warrant considerable risks; where there is no such profit for the danger, they are to be condemned. This point may be made clearer by noting the relative estimate in which true soldiers hold valor and foolhardiness. The man who carefully goes about his task, taking no more risks than are necessary to gain his end, commands the respect, or it may be the reverence, of his associates; but if he puts his head above a parapet, that he may hear the sound of a bullet, or to show that he is not afraid, he is at once reckoned a fool and is likely to be knocked down by some dutiful officer. We may wrong the ancient allegory,--say that life is a crown which any man at any fit time may cast over a line of battle, with the hope of finding it at the end of the combat; but he is under a very grave obligation to be sure that it is his duty to be in the fight lest he be reckoned not as a hero, but as a fool.

These may seem large considerations for application to the seeming trifle of the rushes of our first Monday night. But these contests have grown important from the fact that they endanger men. They give no profit whatever to the participants; what they give is no more than may be had in a mob, a certain savage pleasure such as is derived from the rudest forms of animated action. There is in them no trace of the good which comes from true competitive sports. Judged by the principles which should lead a man to face danger they are absolutely unwarranted-stupid and brutal.

If it be desirable to keep up some kind of a contest between the first and second year men, which does not seem to me to be the case, is it not

possible to have it in some organized shape, as by a football match held a month or two after the term begins, or perhaps by a tug of war in which all the members of each class take part. Such a competition would be at least amusing, which the rush surely is not. The best plan will be to let the silly custom die, as that of hazing has died.

N. S. Shaler.

THE HOUSE OF FELLOWSHIP.

[Lines read at the opening of the Harvard Union, October 15, 1901.]

This is the House of Fellowship,

Binder of bonds that ne'er shall slip;

Here but one word on every lip,

Harvard-and Harvard alone.

Here, no bar of class or creed ;
Here, no lines of club or breed;

Here, one common cry, God-speed
To every Harvard son.

Hither will come both men who've wrought,
Men who've loitered, and men who've fought,
Learning the broader manhood taught

By genial fellowship.

Here, to all the open door;

Workers alike with brain and oar,

Earning the cheers for a winning score,
The victor's joy shall sip.

Here deeper thoughts will sometimes flow,
And Harvard's Fast set hearts aglow
With zest to add to the valiant row

Of her royal fellowship.

These oaken panels shall be the goal,
The burning hope of each Harvard soul.
-Far better here one's name enscroll
Than on the public lip.

Here often the Fifties and Sixties will praise
To new fledged classes "the good old days";
And Eighties and Nineties will meet to inspire
The recreant present with old time fire.
Here friends-old friends—will make their tryst
And grasp once more dear conrade's fist.
They'll laugh once more at the ancient jest ;
Retell the stories that stand Time's test.
They'll dust off the score of forgotten games,
Evoke old crews of the Charles and the Thames,
Repeople the Delta, and Jarvis and Holmes
With heroes of battles quite equal to Rome's.
Revive U. 5 and calls on the Dean,
Compulsory prayers and the Holly Tree Inn,
Quaint John of Orange and Daniel Pratt,
The Class Day tree, old Holworthy chat.

Here the old tunes forever will ring,
Calling up thoughts of the Yard in Spring.
"Schneider" forever will lead his band,
"My love at the window" will always stand.
"The Dutch Companie" the best will remain,
"Fair Harvard" will sound in noble refrain,
The "rudder" will always be shown, in song,
To that crew to which none of us care to belong.

Here, deathless that hymn which years cannot stale

Which evokes the warm hope of "to-something-with Yale." And the later tunes they'll warmly greet

"To the Crimson, Glory," and "Up the Street.”

Here thoughts will cluster of comrades dead,
Of some strong, leal heart, of a noble head,
Of a short, clean life that stirred one's soul,
Of a full, rich life that pointed the goal.

Here grateful pride will ever renew

The name of the patriot, modest and true,
Whose face will look down from yon panelled wall,

But whose life is his best memorial.

Yea, this is the House of Fellowship,
Binding with bonds that ne'er shall slip.
Union of work-to fight to the end:

Union of heart-to strive for one's friend;
Union of strength-to renounce without sigh;
Union of grit-to fall without cry;

Union of wisdom--to read with mind free;

Union of love-to give with glee;

Union of head-to make life more plain;

Union of hope-to win without stain.

These are the ties this House shall breed;
This is its rock-foundation creed.

Symbol of Harvard Loyalty,

House of Good Fellowship—Welcome to thee!

Charles Warren.

THE INTERNATIONAL ATHLETIC GAMES.

The International Games between Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale, held at Berkeley Oval on September 25, will have an important bearing on the future of track athletics. Primarily in the true spirit of sportmanship, secondly in methods of training, we Americans can learn much from our English brothers. Indeed, this very substitution of the word "brothers" for the conventional "cousins," made by Mr. Lees Knowles, M. P., in one of his excellent speeches, shows how a contest like that of last month brings us into closer touch and friendship with the two greatest English Universities. The event was thoroughly a University affair. Mr. Knowles again emphasized this, when he said that he took great pleasure in calling these, not International, but Inter-University Games.

The preparation for the contest was attended with many matters of interest to Harvard men. In the first place, the man whose persistent, energetic, and untiring labors made this meeting possible was a Harvard graduate, Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell. He filled the position as Chairman of the Joint Committee of Harvard and Yale graduates and undergraduates as no one else could have done. By his experience in connection with the Games abroad, two years ago, he was admirably qualified to enter into negotiations with the Englishmen. This he did; and after much correspondence the meeting was finally arranged: its inception and its success are due in great measure to him, and for this Mr. Wendell deserves the highest praise and thanks of college men.

The date for the Games had been first set on September 21. Later, however, it was changed to the 25th, since the English team was to compete against the combined teams of McGill and Toronto Universities at Montreal on the 14th, and wished more than a week to round into form again.

The Englishmen came across on the steamer Commonwealth, arriving in Boston about August 23. They were met and welcomed by Mr. Evert