When the class of eighty-three left college, it took with it many of out most prominent athletes; men who have done much to give Harvard its present high position, and it is to the class of eighty-seven that we must look for men to supply their pleases. No class that has ever entered has had so great a number of men from whom to draw, and it certainly seems the duty of every member of the class to see that those men who can come forward in this matter should do so. In the course of a few weeks, there will be a freshman athletic meeting on Jarvis field, and eighty-seven will there make the beginning of its athletic career. There is an old saw which says briefly, "a work well begun, is a work half done," and indeed if the meeting be a successful one, it will give the athletics of the class an impetus which will carry them well along for the ensuing four years; but if on the contrary, it prove unsuccessful, it will be a heavy weight for the class to bear in whatever they may do afterwards. Obviously it is only the individual athletes who can bring success to a meeting, and if every man who has any claim to proficiency at all will only take hold and do his part, the success of the meeting is assured beyond doubt. There is always a strong tendency in freshmen athletics for the men to hold back, lest they be suspected of "pushing themselves forward," and so "make themselves ridiculous," but any such feeling is based only on a false sense of modesty, for the college will welcome and will appreciate any attempts of the members of the freshmen class to make their meeting a success.