The Trophy Room.

Many of the charts and photographs which formed part of Harvard's exhibit at the World's Fair have been placed in the gymnasium. This has made necessary a new arrangement of the trophies in the room assigned to them, for not only have the walls in the entry leading to the Trophy Room been covered by the World's Fair exhibit, but the walls of the Trophy Room itself have yielded space for this exhibit. Pictures have been grouped and put closer together. Perhaps the best improvement is in the arrangement of the team photographs. Those of the Mott Haven Team have been placed at one end of the room, and, at the other end, on opposite sides of the door, are the photographs of the crews and the 'varsity elevens. The hundred or more banners won in years past still hang from the ceiling. The case containing all the old baseballs and footballs, remains in the same location it has occupied before. As a result of the addition of the World's Fair photographs and charts, the room is crowded to overflowing.

In rearranging the room, Dr. Sargent was greatly surprised to find that many of the team pictures and other trophies were missing. Recent team pictures are not to be found at all and the baseballs won in recent games with Princeton and Yale are not in the proper case. The tables of Harvard and Yale records in track events alone are complete up to the present time. This is the result of personal attention given to the matter by Dr. Sargent and Mr. Lathrop.

The Trophy Room was fitted up for its special purposes about twelve years ago. The classes then in college gave athletic exhibitions by which they netted a large sum of money. This they used to buy the case in which are the trophy baseballs and to buy photographs of the teams. On the walls they placed tablets on which were to be put the records made from time to time in track athletics. The custom of having the photograph of each team placed in the room, together with a record of what it had done, was maintained for several years. Later the custom died out. Moreover, the flags which adorn the room have been neglected. They are rapidly rotting, and will soon be in shreds.

Dr. Sargent is anxious to see matters remedied. He has expressed his willingness to guarantee to find room for all new photographs and trophies that may be added, and also to take care of the trophies, if that seems the most feasible plan. Herbert H. White, manager of athletics, is ready to pay any necessary bill that may be incurred in obtaining the missing pictures. He makes a proviso, however, that there must be some likelihood that the precedent of having all records and trophies placed in the room shall be maintained in the future.

The chief needs seem to be the purchase of a glass case or some other suitable protection for the flags, and the purchase of the missing pictures. It has been suggested either that a rule be passed by the athletic committee, requiring all 'varsity managers to place in the gymnasium pictures and records of their teams, or that a certain sum be appropriated each year and that the matter be left to the graduate treasurer.