Perseverance Won Yale Meet.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It is my earnest wish that the following circumstances of Saturday's Yale meet be brought vividly before the College and strongly impressed upon every-one.

Six Seniors won their "H" for the first time and contributed a total of fifteen points to Harvard's score. Five of these men are all men who in the past have seemed to be working against practical impossibilities, and even as late as their Junior year were showing what one would hardly pick as enough to make them valuable to the team. The sixth stuck at it in the face of numerous accidents. Hard work and faithfulness told, and they not only scored for us this ytar, but they came through with good performances in the face of hard competition. It is unnecessary to mention the names of these men. Two of them won first places with excellent performances, one a second place, and three won third places. These men have worked at track or cross-country in the fall, have made use of the Cage or board track in the winter, and the regular practice in the spring. And, what is more, they have done this every year.

The lesson these men offer to the College is particularly valuable in view of our recent victory. What we want is victories in future years, and these we can get if we have more men come out and be willing to work hard. Many men come out for track--and other sports--and quickly get discouraged and stop. Many men never come out, who by hard work could surely make themselves useful to the team. Other men come out, and in the face of hard competition, stick out, work hard, and in the end come through, as did these men Saturday. They show what the individual can do for the College, and for himself.

This lesson should be made much of particularly among the underclassmen. It simply means that we can always have winning teams if we can get out more men like these. A. SENIOR.