The spirit with which the college has looked upon the Mott Haven team this year has unfortunately lacked much that spontaneous gratitude which the college owes to the team. There seems to have been a general impression that Harvard was going to come out on top in track athletics simply because it did so well last year. The fact seems to have been lost sight of that while Harvard has lost some of her best men since last year, the standard of track athletics in the other colleges has been distinctly increasing. There are in the team very few men who are natural winners; almost all have had to reach the position they now hold by the hardest training. When, then, the team goes down to New Haven and by good running wins the games from Yale, it is rather hard for the men to be greeted on their return to Cambridge with hardly a word of congratulation. The team did their best and this lack of recognition on the part of the men about the college cannot but be discouraging. The college has a chance to correct this little act of thoughtlessness by showing the team as they go off today how much it appreciates the work they have been doing, and how thoroughly its sympathies are with them in the races tomorrow.