In considering the causes which brought the victory Saturday, we are led to glance back at the work which our track athletic team has done in past years. We find that it has been almost uniformly successful. Harvard won the Mott Haven cup, with only two exceptions, for eleven successive years. During a great part of those eleven years, we also note, Harvard was eminently unsuccessful in other branches of athletics. What was the cause of success in one case and of failure in the other, may not have been clear to us at the time. Now, however it certainly is plain enough, It was a settled system of training which brought us success track athletics; it was the lack of it which was largely responsible for our failure in other sports.

Especially apparent has this been in rowing. The differences among the various factions which have had a part in the management of our rowing affairs have been notorious. Happily, they now seem ended; and indications point toward settled methods to be pursued year after year in boating and in other sports, just as they have been successfully followed out in our track athletics. When such a system is once settled upon for all our sports, its effect, strengthened by the new spirit which Captain Cumnock first brought to our athletics two years ago, will begin an era fo uninterrupted prosperity for all our sports.