During the past week or two it has been widely circulated around college that the freshmen were not subscribing as liberally as they ought toward the support of their athletic interests. This rumor, it appears, has a good foundation. The manager of the freshman nine has seen every '85 man rooming in the college yard, excepting seventeen, and he has succeeded in getting just one half the amount necessary to run the nine well this year. He has been told by a number of men "to call again," but those persons should remember that there are over two hundred men in this class, and that the manager has not a sufficient amount of spare time to call upon each member two or three times. A man can usually subscribe as well at one time as at another. Others have said that they took no interest in base ball, and so refused to subscribe on this ground.

There are very few men, probably, who derive, personally, as much enjoyment from merely seeing the games, as they might get from an investment in other mode of pleasures; but pride for his class and his college should induce every man to subscribe as liberally as possible toward supporting the athletic interests of his class. Every freshman nine since 1878 has been defeated by Yale. This year the freshmen have plenty of good material for a nine, and there is no reason why they should not beat the Yale freshmen next spring. To do this, however, it will be necessary to play as many games as possible with outsiders before the Yale game, and this cannot be done unless '85 shows herself much more liberal during the next few weeks than she has in the past.