EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The scheme of flooding Holmes Field appears to have been abandoned for good and all, since discussion of the subject has stopped altogether. The advantages to be gained by putting such a plan into execution, makes it worth while to give the subject fair consideration. If the Athletic Association is unwilling to cover the track on Holmes with water, Jarvis Field still remains. It is true that the ground is higher than Holmes Field but this fact does not make it impossible nor even very difficult to flood the field. A low embankment either of earth or snow would be sufficient to keep the water from running off, and if the field is flooded when the ground is frozen hard there will be no danger of the water's sinking through the soil before ice can be formed. The city of Cambridge last year, when the plan was first suggested, agreed to furnish the necessary water at a very low rate. This and the other expenses connected with the execution of the plan would be gladly paid by the lovers of skating in college. It seems to me, moreover, that the Athletic Association is the organization to take this matter in hand in spite of what the CRIMSON said to the contrary some time since. The direction of two winter meetings is practically in Mr. Lath rop's hands, at least as far as the preliminary training goes; and the meetings do not occur till March, probably a month after all skating weather has passed. The Athletic Association has in this interval practically nothing on its hands, and it seems fitting that the execution of this plan should be under its direction. It is the hope of many men in college that some attempt will be made immediately to carry out this plan, which it is more than likely, would prove successful.

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