THE World, in a recent editorial, proposes a scheme which, could it be carried out, would put new life into athletics at Harvard. Several plans for surmounting the difficulties in the way of the North Pole have lately been laid before Congress. Of these, the most feasible seems to be that of Captain Howgate, who proposes "to establish a colony at eighty degrees north latitude, and from that point push forward toward the Pole by sledging expeditions." The scheme of the World is as follows:-

"We propose that Harvard and Yale Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators."

The World goes on to say that the number of men who devote themselves to athletics is so large, and the amount spent on their sports - including the incident dinners - so great, that men and money might be forthcoming in abundance. To insure the expedition's success a professor might accompany it to superintend the scientific arrangements, and aid the students in their studies during the long winters in camp. A successful termination of the enterprise would be of immense value to science, and the honor of a place on the successful sledge would surpass even that of pulling stroke on the 'Varsity. So much for the proposal. Without meaning to be taken seriously, the World has suggested something that might suit the inclinations of our athletic men. Such expeditions have repeatedly been made by Russian officers from Siberia, and if by Russian officers, why not by Harvard students? But we see no reason why base-ball and boating should be sacrificed. Experience has taught us that we have always room for one more interest to support, be it Rifle Club or Athletic Association. If a shingle be prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a crimson flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand.