A Hockey Club.

EDITOR OF DAILY CRIMSON: - I feel somewhat diffident about suggesting the formation of a new club, but I have thought of one which offers to the students a pleasant and inexpensive exercise. I mean a hockey club.

Hockey, or hawkey, as it was originally spelt, is an old English game. It is played in this country to a limited extent, but not so much as it deserves. When played on ice, the only place where all its possibilities can be brought out, it is fully the peer of football or lacrosse. It requires as much quickness of eye and hand and I may say foot, as either of the games mentioned, but at the same time a learner can enjoy it as well as an old hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict with none of our other sports. Indeed, it might be made a valuable auxiliary to them as a form of winter training. Many a man does not go to the gymnasium, because he finds it dull work to pull at the chest weights, and many another, who does go, would gladly participate in some out door sport which would give him enough exercise to keep him warm and be sufficiently exciting to give him an interest. Hockey is just what such a man wants.

"But we can go any day to Fresh Pond when there is ice, and have all the hockey we want. What's the good of a hockey club?" Well, there are many ways in which it could be useful, not only to its immediate members, but also to the college at large. It could give daily information of the state of the ice. It could make rules to settle the constantly arising disputes. It would enable us, in a measure, to get rid of the ever-present "mucker" who does so much to render the game unpopular. It could arrange a place of deposite where skaters could leave such superfluous articles as they should choose to lay aside for a moment. I have in mind other uses to which it could be put, but these are enough to show its possibilities.

The number of students whom I have seen playing bids me hope that my scheme will find approval. If enough favor it, steps will be taken to put it in operation.

E. V. A. '86.