There can be no manner of doubt that the decision of the Athletic Association to hold only two winter meetings is a wise one. Whatever winter meetings may have been five or six years ago, it is certain that, in the past three years, they have deterioated very much in interest and success. We have no means of knowing the cause of this deterioration. It may have been in the management of the Association; it may have been in the spirit of the men. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that not enough interest has been shown to carry through successfully three winter meetings each year. The seemingly logical solution of the difficulty is the plan of the Association to have two meetings instead of one. They intend to strike out all the lessimportant and uninteresting events, and give more attention to making the others successful. They hope in this way to centralize their effors and get a large number of contestants in each event.

The contests still to have a place in the winter meetings will be those tending to develope the best material for future gymnasium and track athletics. If men will not show enough interest to support the contests of these two winter meetings successfully, there is nothing to be said; but the sign would bode ill for our future success in the intercollegiate games.