The prospects for a good track team this year are unusually bright, for a great many of last year's prize winners are still in college and the new material is excellent. At present there are over two hundred and thirty men in training. Of these, thirty-seven were on the team last year and took part in either the Harvard-Yale games or the Mott Haven games in New York. More than half the remainder tried for the team last year and thus have had experience which hard training may develop into good material.

Of the new men now training for the team there are many who have never taken part in athletic contests before but who show signs of unusual promise. These men will have a chance to show their prowess at the B. A. A. games on February 8, and Mr. Lathrop expects that these will give a good account of themselves at that time.

A few of the new men have already made reputations for themselves. There is J. T. Roche '99 who won both the sprints in last year's interscholastic meeting and H. H. Fish '99 who won second place in the quarter mile. Then there is E. A. Starbuck '99 the mile runner from Andover, who won second place in this event in the interscholastics two years ago. Two other new men of some note are P. E. Somers who has jumped over twenty-one feet in the Maine interscholastic games and D. Grant, who did such good work in the mile run last fall.

Of last year's team only thirteen men will be unable to compete this year. J. L. Coolidge, S. K. Fenollosa, H. R Johnstone, H. W. Jameson, H. Emerson, F. L. Dunlap, G. C. Chaney and P. da S. Prado have left college; N. W. Bingham, F. S. Elliot and H. C. Lakin are in the Law School but as they have competed for four years they are barred out. C. D. Drew and C. J. Liebmann are still in college but will be unable to walk owing to ill-health. L. T. Hildreth will also be unable to run owing to stress of work in the Law School.

Eleven of last year's prize winners are now in training. They are Captain Bremer, who won the low hurdles in Cambridge and New York; E. Hollister, who won the half mile in both places; W. H. Vincent, who won the quarter mile at New York, and took second place in the half mile and third in the quarter at Cambridge; C. J. Paine, who last year broke the dual league record of 6 ft. 5/8 in. in the high jump, and won third place in New York; A. Stickney, winner of second place in the broad jump in Cambridge and New York; L. W. Redpath, winner of second place in both sprints in the dual games; M. G. Gonterman, winner of third place in the 100 yards at Cambridge; W. W. Hoyt, who won first prize in pole vault in the Yale games and second at New York; N. B. Marshall, winner of second place in the quarter mile at Cambridge; W. R. Mansfield, winner of third place in the quarter mile at New York; J. D. Phillips, who won third place in walk at Cambridge and New York and K. K. Kubli, winner of third place in the shot put in the Yale games.

Besides these prize winners the following men, all of whom competed either at Cambridge or New York, are in active training: E. H. Clark, for hammer and shot and broad jump; F. H. Bigelow and A. M. Eaton, for the sprints; J. Edson, J. L. Little and F. R. Lewis, for the quarter mile; V. Munroe, J. C. Rice, H. L. Williams and F. Mason, for the hurdles; H. Foote and F. C. Hinkley, for the mile; C. H. Williams and J. Bordman, for the half mile; M. J. Connor, for hammer and shot; N. P. Hallowell and A. Emmons, for the pole vault; W. E. Putnam, for the high jump; J. Staab, for the walk; V. H. Smith, S. Bryant and J. G. Clarke for the broad jump, and A. B. Holmes, H. C. Burdett and W. R. Brinckerhoff, for the bicycle race.

It will thus be seen that the material this year is excellent and with careful training the team should be able next spring to retrieve the defeats which Harvard has suffered for the past three years.