By John Kieran

(Of The New York Times)

There is plenty of room for argument m the plan for conducting intercollegiate football offered by President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College. It has something in its favor and much against it. It certainly will be vetoed by those colleges which have built huge stadia on borrowed money which must be repaid out of future football receipts. That, however, is not a valid argument against the Hopkins plan.

It is evident, moreover, that the college presidents have awakened to the fact that they are just as responsible for the athletics at their institutions as they are for the scholarship. President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard spoke out on that subject some months ago, and others are swinging into line.

Those things which are referred to as "evils" in intercollegiate football—proselytizing, athletic scholarships, tramp athletes and whatnot—could not exist without the consent of the college authorities.

And, contrary to the popular opinion, the ultimate college authority is the college president, not the football coach.