To the Editors of the Crimson:

I wish to bring to the notice of the Harvard Athletic Association, through your columns, a suggestion which I trust may be acted upon. Any one who has used the board running track outside the gymnasium must have felt how inadequate it for the large numbers which make use of it. Sprinters, half mile runners, mile runners and working people manage to to congregate on the three and a half foot walk at about the same time, so that one has to regulate his pace to suit the crowd rather than the distance for which he training. Moreover it is no unusual thing to see a bare-legged sprinter go dashing into a snow drift to save himself a collision. This state of affairs is likely to grow worse rather than better; after the midyears the number of candidates for the Mott Haven team is considerably increased and the inconvenience which is now experienced cannot fail to become greater. Although the curves now are far too sharp and narrow the great objection lies in the straightaway which is used the most. It would be of but little expense to double the width of the track from the gate down to the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, or to broaden it by one half, even, would make a vast improvement on the track as it is now, and the advantages to be gained by such an addition would, I think, justify the necessary expenditure.

N.