The Yale News editorially makes an appeal for candidates for the Mott Haven team, saying that, as "Harvard won the cup through five second prizes" last year, the inferior men ought to be encouraged to try as well as the first prize men. Passing over the circumstance that next year there will probably be no first prizes lost through mismanagement, as was the case with us last year, the call of the News for the services of every capable man whether a fine athlete or not, should find an echo in our columns, in behalf of our team.

While our chances are good for a brilliant record of victories at Mott Haven next spring, yet the neglect of one man who considers himself suitable for any or the contests, lessons the certainty of such a record. Extreme diffidence in such matters is to be deplored. Many men are dissuaded from presenting themselves thinking that a place on the team is a mere matter of favoritism. Nothing can be further from the truth for, under the supervision of the H. A. A. and Mr. Lathrop, success in track athletics and a position on the team is a matter of personal worth and perseverance.