As we are all familiar with the events of the foot ball season recently closed, a word or two might well be said now to the men who intend to try for the team next fall. The experience of the past few years has proved to a certainty that the part of the season which can be spared for training is too short to bring a man into anything like perfect condition for playing unless he returned to college in something above the average form. Formerly, as soon as the last game was played in the fall, the players were allowed to conduct themselves as they pleased until the next season came round. The result was that they had to spend most of the time before the first game in trying to worry themselves back into decent physical condition. With some it was a dismal failure, and injuries, contracted through their neglect, at the outset almost destroyed their usefulness in the important games that followed. A light but steady practice in the gymnasium during the winter, and some regular out-door training in the spring and summer, is what our players must come to if Harvard is to gain the supremacy on the foot ball field next fall. The lacrosse team, the nine, and class crews, give the men ample facilities to improve their condition next spring; and the captain of the foot ball team should insist that each of his men should engage in some one of these sports. By this provision the team will leave college in June in fair condition, and by a little care during the summer months, especially in September, they will return on the first of October ready to begin strict training and steady practice without the usual delay.