Two years ago a special winter meeting was given in the gymnasium for the benefit of the University Crew under the auspices of the H. A. A. The idea has suggested itself to us that, inasmuch as the Crew is in need of money it would be a graceful thing on the part of the H. A. A. to undertake another such meeting this year. The meeting could be conducted on very much the same plan as that of two years ago. A small admission fee of seventy-five cents or one dollar should be charged for admission, with a certain amount extra for reserved seats. The sports could be made very attractive if the management of the H. A. A. would enter into the matter in earnest; and ladies should be admitted as at other winter meetings. This special meeting could easily be arranged for the 31st of March, the Saturday before vacation begins, and it might be the means of helping the University Crew considerably. It might not be a bad plan to ask the Technology tug-of-war team to pull against our 'varsity team. This would give our team practice for the Mott Haven games, and would lend zest to the entertainment. Fencing is also an interesting sport to watch, especially if the bout is a lively one. We might have a round of featherweight sparring, if the men would be willing to keep up their training for a week longer. In fact, there are many events which might be introduced which would combine to make the meeting a very interesting one, and a profitable one for the crew. This is only a suggestion, but we hope the management of the H. A. A. will look into the matter. The meeting would be a benefit to that organization in the training and practice it would give to the men, and it would be a benefit to the University crew, which is of the greatest importance. We trust the matter will not be allowed to drop with this editorial, but will be taken up and considered by the proper authorities.

We have two suggestions and a complaint to make in regard to the First Winter meeting, held last Saturday. While the two former can be taken in hand and rejected or accepted by the Athletic Association as it wishes, the latter must be regarded and taken to heart by everyone who was present and is to be present at another meeting.

Now to the first suggestion; and that is that preliminary bouts in wrestling be held in order to weed out the entries, some time before the day of the meeting, so that on that day there will be fewer contestants, and accordingly, less time taken up. At this last meeting there was an hour's actual wrestling, and this, with the long waits necessary between the falls, made the events very tiresome and long drawnout. This proposed condensation of the wrestling would not only economize time, but would also lend fresh interest to the bouts, since the contestants would be more skilful and evenly matched.

The second suggestion is that more room be given to the boxers. Judging from a good deal of Saturday's sparring, the ring was too small and the crowded benches surrounding it were a source of annoyance and even great trouble to the boxers, who were continually tripping and falling over the feet of the spectators. It would be a good plan to encircle the ring with a rope, or perhaps a fence of empty benches placed with backs inward.

In regard to the complaint we do not think, but we know that we speak for the college in emphatically denouncing the action of the spectators in the hissing which played a prominent part in some of the sparring bouts. That an excited crowd will blindly follow its sudden impulses, if given a start by one bolder than his fellows we know, but men should control and hide such open bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without the slightest provocation, and in fact much of it was nothing more than the crowd's desire to express sympathy with its favorites. We sincerely hope and believe that nothing of this sort will ever again mar a Harvard athletic meeting.