A YEAR or two ago, when the Athletic Association, at a cost of six hundred dollars or more, built a cinder track which, it was said, would be the finest owned by any of the colleges, we confidently expected that Harvard had spent all that it would need, for this purpose, for some time to come. But it seems that our expectations are not to be realized. It is an undoubted fact, that the wrong kind of cinders was used in the original laying-out of the track, and the whole contract was carried out in a thoroughly unsatisfactory and careless way. A survey made last fall has shown, moreover, that the whole field has sunk somewhat - in places, as much as a foot. If this is the actual state of affairs, - and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of these statements, - something must be done at once. No one will care to make a record on a track which is not level, and the one branch of athletics in which Harvard was successful last year will receive a severe blow. The Athletic Association, with an energy which it has always shown, intends to make the repairs which are necessary. But to make thorough work, a larger amount of money is needed than it can raise unless its present resources are increased. The officers of the Association have therefore decided to raise the price of admission to the Winter Meetings. If, with the increased price, there is an attendance at these as large as there was last year, a long step will have been taken towards paying for the repairs on the track. Let us hope, therefore, that the Gymnasium Meetings will be financially as successful this year as they have always been in every other respect in the past.