The freshman class has failed to do its full share toward the success of the winter meetings. From a class of its size the college naturally expects,-and rightly, too,-a large number of entries. It is true that eighty-eight made a good showing at the field meetings of last fall, and that the number of its men at present working with the candidates for the Mott Haven team is gratifying; yet the college is justified in expecting each freshman class to come forward and contribute its share towards making a success of the gymnasium meeting, and this eighty-eight has not done. It must be that the old-time spirit of bashfulness still exists among our freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing at the games through consciousness of their inability to carry away the prizes. The senselessness of both these courses of reluctance to compete has been too often pointed out, to need further comment.