The time has come when returning students flood the College and possibly its sports, and when the deathless army of ex-students who keep the summer sports clubs alive in the period of short-comings and long goings, departs. In view of the operations of the National Service Department, the lean periods which the summer sports clubs enjoy are at present unavoidable, but ill peace time there can be no excuse for them. Of the total roll, a comparatively small body of students arc full-timers and correspondingly small will be the number of summer players absent during the long vacation. The reason for the weakness of the Varsity summer sports clubs is to be found rather in the number of potential wearers of the green who are playing in outside clubs or not playing at all during the summer and are well content to do so. It can hardly be doubted that if half the energy which club officials put into the Resurrection of the Dead be put into canvassing the College Roll, the clubs would flourish like the green bay tree.

By now, the winter sports clubs will have held their meetings. Some, such as Hockey and Harriers, will, we have little doubt, open as successfully as of yore—we are even more certain that other clubs will see the same old bunches sitting on the same old benches.

—D.N.Y.O.