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NOTHING makes the University more interesting to graduates who come back here after several years' absence than the preservation of athletic trophies and records. Any one who has visited the English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with what interest he saw on the long roll of oarsmen men who afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were placed in the Gymnasium, and it was hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified. It is also proper, in this connection, to remind the Athletic Association that a similar step on its part would add materially to the interest of the Gymnasium, besides supplying a permanent roll from which its records could be taken.