The candidates for the Mott Haven team are now at work in the gymnasium, and probably feel that there is no need that they should be urged to do their duty. We do not doubt that hard and faithful training is being done, but we would call the attention of the candidates to the exceptionally strong efforts being made this year at other colleges to wrest the inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks, the sprint runner of Yale, intends to run this year, if we are to believe reports, and the candidates for the running high jump and the broad jump, two events in which Harvard has lost very strong men, are out in full force. In short, greater efforts than ever, if that were possible, are being made by our rival colleges to break the long series of victories which Harvard has won in track athletics, and we hope this fact will be appreciated by our candidates. Our efficient trainer is giving the candidates great assistance by his careful supervision and advice, and there is no reason why, with strict attention and honest training, the members of the Mott Haven team should not win again that championship which Harvard has come to consider peculiarly her own.