IT is a source of great regret to many that the Athletic Association proposes holding no field meeting this fall, owing to the expense incident to putting the track in condition for use; and although a glance at Jarvis will easily satisfy one that their ground is a perfectly valid one, still we cannot but feel that the existence of such an objection is, or ought to be, quite unnecessary. The employing of a man to take care of the track during the summer months would result in affording opportunity to our athletes to begin training as soon as the term opens, and would entirely do away with the possibility of such an unfortunate quandary in the future as at present exists; while the expense, we should think, could not fail of being much less than the Association will now have to incur before their track is again practically useful. The enthusiasm in regard to track athletics at Harvard, although much greater last year than ever before, is still not so intense that we can afford to let an entire season pass by without giving any encouragement at all to our runners and walkers; and we can only hope that next year the growth of weeds and grass upon the track will not render it so nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the field that our fall meeting will again have to be given up from lack of resources to clear the stubble away.