The major sports are never in lack of reservoirs from which to draw increasing strength. Second teams and Freshman teams and scrub teams offer full opportunity for the inculcation of skill into awkwardness.

Not so with the minor sports. Their existence from year to year is uneven. A championship team may lose its men by graduation, and the next year the team, composed entirely of green men, will head the bottom of the list. The reasons for a lack of good substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain.

The class in athletics for Freshmen, held in the Hemenway Gymnasium, will work a great good individually among the men taking part in it. Incidentally it will form a nucleus for the continual development of University teams. Inherent ability in boxing, or wrestling or fencing will be disclosed. What is more important, on incentive will be give to many men for development to a definite degree of competitive skill. The way is open for a recondescence of our minor sports.