We are told that as yet only a comparatively small number of the freshmen have become members of the Athletic association. The reason for this poor representation is not clear. It is a duty which every undergraduate owes to our athletic interest to join this association when he first enters college, and the feeling of loyalty which we take it for granted that he possesses ought to lead him to give genuine support to such an organization. Looking at the matter from another point of view, it certainly is for a man's individual interest to belong to the Association. No student, unless he be a holder of an Association ticket, is admitted to the three winter meetings world in the gymnasium. On the other hand a membership ticket entitles the possessor to admittance to all the athletic meetings while he is in the university, and always afterward for that matter. We have detailed the privileges of a member of the Athletic association mainly for the benefit of the men in Ninety-three. We trust that in becoming members they will be influenced as much by allegiance to college, of which we first spoke, as by purely personal considerations.

While we are on this matter we want to say just a word in regard to the management of the winter meetings. Last year they were hardly considered eminently successful. The cause of this lack of success lay in the small number of entries. This year the management has taken pains to publish the list of events fully three weeks earlier than last year in order that men may see what the contests are to be in, and may have enough time in which to prepare themselves. The men intending to enter will do well to consider that this year they will have no ground to complain that too short a time has been given them to work.