In another column is printed a communication from the captain and manager of the track team regarding the material available for next year. The lack of contestants in the field events for the past several years has been the subject of so much comment from the University at large that it is unnecessary to go into details at present. The fact remains that a large number of men have totally failed to bear their share of the University's athletic responsibility, and as a result, the excellent work of our sprinters and long-distance men has often been offset by the shortage of entries in the field events. And to make the situation even worse, the only reason that can be assigned to this lack of material is laziness or indifference!

Whether or not the University will make a creditable showing in track next year depends entirely upon the interest of those men who are physically able and who, by a little sacrifice on their part, could easily develop into point-winners in the field events. There is no disgrace in being defeated when you have done your best-but the knowledge that had it not been for a few "slackers" the showing of the track team this season might have been much different, is a disgrace, and one that every member of the University should make an effort to wipe out next year.