The successful meeting held by the Yale Bicycle Club last week, brings more forcibly to mind the condition of bicycling at Harvard. Two years ago the Harvard Bicycle Club held a meeting which, from the large number of entries of prominent amateur wheelmen, and the fast time made, was extremely interesting, and showed the activity of the club. If we remember rightly, the amateur record for one mile was broken at this meeting. Unfortunately for the interests of bicycling in college, the faculty after this forbade the club to hold bicycle races in the future, although all the competitors at this meeting were strictly amateur riders. The result of this prohibition has been that interest in bicycling has weakened in college to such an extent that the Bicycle Club is in far from a flourishing condition. There is only one fast rider in college, and no one could be found to train with him. We think that if races could be held here again, the interest in wheeling would speedily revive.
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