THE NEW NORMALCY

The removal of the Harvard polo practise fields from Dedham, Hamilton and Forbes Field to the class football field beyond the Business School is one of those improvements in the University's athletic plans which have been long delayed by mechanical difficulties. Outside the military science units on Soldiers Field has long stood the polo practise cage, its purpose conjectual only to the imaginative. The scarred and single symbol that polo is played at Harvard, it has been also the symbol, like the graduate student who swam the Charles in March, of an inadequacy.

Centralization of University athletics in the regions which, if not cis-Charles, are at least tangental to them, stopped being an idea and became a necessity when a new student attitude toward study was won. The undergraduate has little time for diversion, he never had less time to travel to it. No sport can with justice eat up two hours a day in travel and preparation. It is possible for the mountain to be deluded into going to Mahomet, but is is fanatic.

The new field is not of regulation size and it will still be necessary for Freshman and University teams to play their scheduled games elsewhere. But the handful of undergraduates who have soon the University's riders in action should find their numbers increased, if the large attendance at the Harvard Yale polo games of last year be any index. Polo as a spectator's game is in the curious position of being over advertised by the clothiers of the smart set publications, and under appreciated or oftener unknown among those who find much of real beauty in other sports. One is glad that polo can be played and seen literally at Harvard. One is gladder that in this sport the factor of lost time has been erased.