The athletic meeting on Saturday was a grand success, not so much in the record made, but in the show of material for the future and in the demonstration of a healthy competition among those who are not our very first athletes. The limited contests brought out several men who, with careful training, are capable of strengthening our present hold upon the cup, and of assuring to us another year's championship. But it is '86 that we wish to congratulate especially, in having brought forward so many strong men. Their records, it is true, will not sound remarkable to outside readers, but the circumstance of the races, the season of the year, and all things considered, must satisfy every supporter of the crimson that we have not fallen a peg from last year's position.
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