The announcement is made in another column that the college tennis tournament this spring will be handicap instead of "scratch," as usual. Slight objection has been raised, we understand, in some quarters against the new method. The benefits, however, of offering a strong inducement for men to enter led the executive committee to decide that the change in conducting the tournament was best. They will fix the handicaps as carefully as possible, taking into account the work done by the contestants in previous tournaments, and by the principal players in the tennis league this spring. Such a course, they feel sure, will go far towards the development of new players.

The first regular step to bring out new material was made two years ago, when the tennis league was first organized. The leading players in college at that time found that if Harvard intended to make a good showing in tennis, she must adopt in this, as in other sports, some organized system of development. The tennis league was the direct outgrowth of this idea. What good it has accomplished cannot of course be measured; but it is very certain that the number of good tennis players at Harvard is greater than it has ever been before, and is still on the increase. From this large number of good players, rather than from one or two "stars," Harvard looks for her future success.