In Professor White's explanation last night of the plans for the equipment of the Soldiers' Field a new phase of the Athletic Committee's service to the University appears. The gentlemen who comprise this body have been at work since Major Higginson gave the land and have devised a series of plans which will give us the greatest athletic field in the world.

The value of centering the interests of our field and river sports around one place is so great that a full estimate of the advantages which will result is impossible. The first and most apparent benefit will doubtless be the long desired general interest in boating. When base ball, cricket and tennis all draw the attention of the University to the river bank it is apparent that the crew will receive a support which it has thus far never had.

In the building on the estate presented by Major Higginson the opportunity will be offered for working out the experiment tried by the 'varsity training table association which is sure to be successful in the end. In the same building an organization similar to the old 'varsity club will probably be started.

Perhaps the greatest benefit resulting from the field will be to the University as a whole, for the eight hundred lockers provided for in the plans of the building to be erected will make available a practically limitless play ground to all who may wish to avail themselves of its use.

Although for the immediate future our foot ball games with Yale are to be played in Springfield it is not hoping too much to expect before many years alternate Yale - Harvard games to be played on the new field where any number of spectators can be readily accomodated.