A week has elapsed since the close of the mid-years, but nothing has as yet been done towards forming a university tug-of-war team. Within the past month some discussion has been carried on through the columns of the CRIMSON. Many of the prominent tug-of-war men have protested against the sport as dangerous.

At a meeting of candidates for the team only one man appeared, and action was postponed by the H. A. A. until after the mid-years. Meanwhile some letters of remonstrance have been publicly written, but no result has been apparent. When sifted to the bottom much of the objection to tug-of-war seems to be in the manner of training. The candidates have been in the habit of preparing themselves by practice pulls which are in reality almost as much of a strain as the actual contests. Instead of this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed by the H. A. A. for this year. With such a change a great part of the objection to the sport would be removed. Instead, then, of only one man's appearing as a candidate, there ought to be a larger number than ever before. Harvard has been famous in past years for her tug-of-war team, and in her last year of membership in the intercollegiate league ought not to allow the event to go uncontested. More than that she cannot afford to. Harvard must make a determined effort to win the Mott Haven cup this year, and show that in track and field athletics the contest lies now as it has lain for the last ten years, between Harvard and Yale.

We have appealed before to the college at large to give better support to the H. A. A. in tug-of-war. We now appeal directly to the three members of last year's team who are still connected with the university; and to the men who expressed themselves as "strongly in favor of Harvard's continuing to put a team in the field," in the issues of the CRIMSON of January 17 and 20. These men ought to feel that the chief responsibility comes upon them and that the college looks to them to come forward promptly as candidates.