EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-Your article in yesterday's issue relative to the abandonment of hare and hounds runs for the rest of the year seems a timely one. From the large number that turned out to run Thursday, it is obvious that there remains still quite a spark of enthusiasm in a considerable number of students for these crosscountry runs. Thier importance in the line of bringing out men for long distances cannot be over-estimated. If we expect to win the mile race at the next inter-collegiate meeting, we must do something more than run two or three weeks on the track in the spring. This something else, I think, should consist in cross-country runs. Dr. Sargent assured me this fall that there was no sport better adapted to prepare men for the mile and possibly the half than the hare and hounds runs. As to the matter of cost, your article is direct, and to the point. It seems hardly conceivable that the H. A. A. should allow itself to go into print stating that there "will probably be no more runs this year." When so many men participate in all the runs, and with the pleasant weather that has welcomed us on each occasion, would we not be justified in saving that the H. A. A. was resorting to the policy of "small things?"

It is to be hoped, therefore, that the notice of the H. A. A., that Thursday's run would probably be the last one, will be reconsidered, and that at least those runs will be given.

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