The defeat of Harvard by Yale in the track games ought to drive home a lesson which Harvard must learn before an equal share in athletic victories will ever come to her. It is that if Harvard is to win, the whole of Harvard must unite in the attempt to win. Part of Harvard may do its best, but, if part of Harvard is to be pitted against the whole of Yale, how more than occasional victories can result we do not see.

Take these track games. Three of the field events practically went to Yale by default. In one of these Yale won by the efforts of men who had worked hard in former years without seeing any great success result; in the other two Yale had at work her heavy men prominent in other forms of athletics. Harvard had only one man in each event. Now it is perfectly certain that there are a number of men here who if they had trained persistently could have done something for the University in these events, but they did not take the trouble. Part of the men in Harvard are just as spirited, just as plucky, have just as much "sand" as any equal number of Yale men, and no one who closely scrutinizes athletic records can doubt this; but they are pressed down by the inertness of other men who will make no attempt unless it is quite to their taste and unless success seems practically certain. There are, to be sure, able men for whom the conditions of finances, health, or intellectual work make participation in athletics unadvisable, and with such men no one quarrels. But when a man could probably with practice do something for the University and shrinks from the attempt out of pure languidness; when he refuses to do anything unless he feels confident that he himself will be chiefly benefited; when, in a word, he chooses to indulge his own whim, rather than aid the University, then he is contemptible. We should like to see a sentiment here that would stigmatize every such man.