The interest in the work of the Mott Haven team which has shown itself among the graduates this year is a most encouraging sign. There has been perhaps a tendency among many old Harvard men to regard the Intercollegiate cup as something which must come to Cambridge as a matter of course and in consequence there has seldom been much enthusiasm among the graduates until the time of the games. To be sure there is little that the graduates can do in the way of coaching as in some of the other branches of sport, but there is a great deal that they can do to help get out all the available material for the team.

Harvard won the old Mott Haven Cup eight years while Yale held it only twice. Since the new Intercollegiate cup has been competed for Harvard has gained three victories and Yale two. One secret of success in the past is that it has always been the policy at Cambridge to get out as large a number of men as possible and to devote attention to the second and third rate performers as well as to the stars. Since the formation of the dual league Yale's feeling has been much the same with the result that we know only too well.

But Harvard still has an advantage in the convenient situation of her track and since it has been proved that the number of candidates has such an important influence on the final result we hope that more men will turn out this year than ever before. Mr. Lathrop has developed many a winner from men who had not previously taken any part in athletics and he is quite as glad to see such men as those who have a few prizes to their credit.