Communications.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-In your article on "Athletics at Athens" there was a startling statement in regard to jumping. If, in the yarn contained in Herodotus, the original narrator meant that a Greek jumped 55 feet with the assistance only of a run and weights, then, assuredly he told a lie. If the jump was made from a spring board, or from a great elevation, or after striking the ground with his feet three or four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative. F., '85.