ARM-CHAIR ATHLETES.

In recent years Harvard track teams have suffered from a notorious deficiency in the department of field events. Year after year a combination of sterling runners has been forced to content itself with a reputation of mediocrity in intercollegiate standing simply because of pitiable weakness in the field events. Curiously enough these five events require far less natural ability than is necessary to be a good runner. Faithful practice by a man of ordinary aptitude will in any one of these events lead to a degree of proficiency that will enable him to be of use to the team. And yet there are dozens of men with the requisite brawn who are content to do nothing but make their C 's and D's and soak up the heat in College dormitories. Is Captain Bingham's team to suffer, like its predecessors, not from want of stars but from lack of enough men with the proper spirit?