IN view of the projected Yale Meetings, and a desire to keep at Harvard the championship cup, (which will be on exhibition in the Gymnasium as soon as it is finished), it would be well for our athletes to realize that if we desire to retain the position in athletics which our Mott Haven Team of last year gained for us, we cannot content ourselves with resting on their laurels, but must make up our minds to work well and faithfully with that end in view.

Of our last year's team Keene and Thompson are gone, and the Hammer, Shot, Pole Jumping, and Running Broad Jump are thus left without representatives. In the sports with Yale we shall probably want at least two representatives in each event, and possibly more; and it must be remembered that all of the above are events in which much careful practice is absolutely necessary. To this list of events, for which we have absolutely no representatives at present, let us add the Hurdles, the 1/2-Mile Run, and the Tug of War. For this latter event, in which we are totally unskilled, we ought to have a team already at work, for it is a game in which science (gained only by long practice) almost invariably wins if the teams are at all evenly matched in weight, as this year (owing to the restriction of the aggregate weight of the four men to 600 lbs.) they undoubtedly will be.

For the other events, the Mile Run has a fair number of representatives; and last year found more men than usual in the 1/4-Mile Run, and the 100 yards, though in this latter a lack of sufficient training and preparation was most obvious. In the Mile Walk we have only one man to look to, and should he become in any way disabled just before an important meeting, we should have absolutely no one to take his place. The same may be said of the 220 yards' Dash, and the Standing High Jump.

The Bicycle Race also lacks representatives who will work, if we can take last spring for a criterion, for at that time none of our numerous bicyclists could be found disengaged, who were willing to take the trouble to train for Mott Haven. In the Running High Jump we have two or three men on whom we can depend; but the sum total of our athletes to whom we can look for conscientious training is, it has been seen, lamentably small.

There is room and in fact need for men in almost every event on our programmes, and we shall hope in the spring to see, by the increased number of men working every day on the track, that the efforts of the Athletic Association to promote the interest of our field sports have not been thrown away. At any rate, let us all have the satisfaction of feeling that, if the cup goes elsewhere next year, it will not be for lack of earnest endeavors and conscientious work on the part of every man who feels now that he could do something in athletics if he would only conquer his laziness and work.