With the renewal of activity in baseball and track athletics, Harvard men must think with great regret of the proposed abandonment of Holmes Field in the coming year. The field has about it all the charm of intimate association with the University, past and present. Its nearness to the Yard, its position in the midst of well known University buildings, and the tradition of athletic contests which for so many years have been held on it, serve to identify it very closely with the University. Harvard's victories in baseball and in track athletics have been won on Holmes Field, her crews and football teams have had their headquarters in the Carey Building. There is a sentiment attaching to the field which can never be transferred to the other side of the Charles. Whatever advantages Harvard's new athletic grounds may be made to offer, (and the great advantage of nearness will not be one) they can never become as much a part of Harvard as Holmes Field has always been. One crosses between it and the Yard in a minute, and without leaving the University grounds. The Yard itself scarcely belongs more peculiarly to Harvard men than does Holmes Field; yet they are apparently to lose the latter before the loss is necessary. Students will probably always be reluctant to acknowledge the necessity for change; at least, then, until necessity is asserted, it seems far too harsh a measure to insist on the abandonment of Holmes Field.