to sway men and capture cities and crown Kings.

[Illustration: THE LITTLE JOAN.
SEE "JOAN OF ARC," PAGE 1039.]

[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

Two important matters were attended to at the meeting of the New York
Interscholastic Athletic Association last Tuesday. One was the question
which football rules shall govern the contests held under the
supervision of the association this fall, and the other was in regard to
the formation of a National Interscholastic Amateur Athletic
Association.

There was so much business of immediate local importance for the
association to transact that it was not until late in the afternoon that
the question of organizing the National I.S.A.A.A. could be brought up.
But when it was brought up the representatives of the schools were
unanimous in their opinion that the scheme should be put through, and it
was immediately voted that the matter be taken up by the association,
sitting as a committee of the whole, at their next meeting. The first
step in the matter has now been taken, and we may consequently look
forward confidently to a new and brilliant era in the history of school
sports.

As to the football rules, but little discussion was necessary. The
constitution of the N.Y.I.S.A.A. specifies that all games of the
N.Y.I.S.F.B.A. shall be played under the rules of the Inter-collegiate
F.B.A., and as that association this year consists merely of Yale and
Princeton, the New York school games will be conducted according to the
newly made Yale-Princeton or Inter-collegiate regulations. As this code
is, beyond any doubt, the best one of the three at present in use, it is
fortunate that the constitution of the N.Y.I.S.A.A. was so worded as to
provide for their adoption.

There is no doubt that if a National Interscholastic A.A.A. be formed, a
team of athletes from the Oakland High-School in California will come on
to compete at the first meeting. They are thoroughly in earnest out
there. A couple of weeks ago I quoted from the San Francisco papers,
which contained more or less accurate reports of these young sportsmen's
intentions, but since then I have received a copy of the _High-School
AEgis_, Oakland High-School's paper in which there is an article entitled
"The Prospective Eastern Trip." It is too long to quote entire in these
columns, but a few paragraphs from it cannot fail to be of interest. The
article begins by saying that,

"Through the efforts of HARPER