The college should show its appreciation of the faithful and successful work of our athletes by turning out in large numbers at the sports this afternoon. Although the management has been put to great inconvenience by the lack of an efficient trainer, yet, thanks to the energetic work of the association, we trust that our representatives will meet with no mean success on the 26th. At all events, we feel sure that some fine records will be made this afternoon, and that no one will regret having witnessed the sports.

In this connection we wish to emphasize the importance of some different regulation in regard to the training of the men. Very little encouragement is offered to our track athletes by the college at large. They are obliged to train at their own expense, and unless they win their events they reap very little honor for their labor. The difficulties with which they have been compelled to contend this year have been greater than ever before. In the absence of a regular trainer, men who wish to compete in any events have been compelled to rely on what instruction and training they could obtain from their friends and the few athletes in college who have volunteered their services. Such an arrangement, at the best, can be but a temporary one. It is a poor substitute for the regular and careful training that most college athletes have been in the habit of receiving, and naturally the results will be below the standard. Although we may keep the championship cup this year without the services of a competent trainer, we can hardly expect to do so hereafter. The lack of good training is felt as much in this as in other branches of athletics. We again express our hope that the faculty will next year see fit to allow some different arrangement in regard to trainers than that of this year.