In spite of the abolition of the standing high jump as an event in the inter-collegiate games, a measure which has been generally regarded as aiming at Harvard's athletic supremacy, we still have reason to hope for renewed success this year at Mott Haven. We retain most of our former champions who have done themselves and the university much credit for the last two years, and several promising additional candidates for athletic honors have appeared, who bid fair to keep up Harvard's prestige. A revived interest in athletics exists among us at present, and most of our athletes are now in active training in the gymnasium, while others will begin out-door work as early as is practicable. Mott Haven is not the place for individual rivalry between members of the same team, and such practices will only weaken the opposing contestants and lessen our chances of victory. Let all such matters be settled at our own athletic meetings, and let our representatives so divide up the events for Mott Haven that each man's powers of endurance will not be too severely tested by entering too many events.

We ought surely to repeat our former victories and win several others. The mile run is especially worth the effort, as we have men who seem capable of success in this event if trained and pushed for it. In several other events we shall probably bring out some strong contestants, whose success in any one instance would prove gratifying. '85 is an unknown factor as yet in these calculations, and all look to her with the greatest interest in the coming in-door athletic games this month, and upon the training field when spring opens.