We cannot refrain from a feeling of sympathy with the views of our Princeton correspondent of last Saturday, upon the subject of Yale's services to foot-ball. Yale has undoubtedly done much to develope the science of the game, and for what she has done in this way she deserves all praise. But she has also done the game much injury, as our correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale, and how readily the taunt of effeminacy will come to the lips of the self-sufficient News; but, nevertheless, we believe our opinion is sound and reasonable, and is not sufficiently refuted by simple derision.
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