THE success of the meeting of the H. A. A. last Saturday well illustrates a point we have always urged, - that a little training and self-denial will accomplish a great deal in athletics in a comparatively short time. We do not speak of the meeting as an unqualified success, for the entries were far too scanty, and some of the times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best man had some one more nearly his equal to push him; but in the races mentioned above, the contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college. We cannot help reverting to the tardiness with which men enter their names. It was, we believe, with the intention of breaking up this bad habit that the plan of having secret entries was adopted. Men used to hang back, waiting to see who their opponents were going to be, and would enter or not accordingly. But now they can have no such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time or be shut out entirely. The Sophomore class made a very small show on the programme, and still worse in the field; entering only five men out of thirty, which certainly is not their proper proportion. We hope they will feel the College expects more from them, and we shall all look for them carefully in the next meetings. The Freshmen have reason to be satisfied with themselves, and we with them, being the winners in six events out of ten. They appear to be an athletic class, and from some of them we shall expect good records.