It is a matter of great regret to the entire college that the freshmen, by losing their game Saturday, have forfeited the right of taking part in the tree exercises on class day. However, although the action of the senior class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about this matter generally, and particularly among the freshmen. They must not think that the intention was to shut them out from the tree, because they were freshmen, as a punishment for not defeating Yale. It is well known, that last year on class-day, the enclosure around the tree was entirely too closely crowded to admit of the ceremonies being carried on with perfect success or even convenience. It was seen from this that a part of the college would have to be excluded from the tree hereafter. As a whole class would have to be excluded, it is only fair that the freshmen class should be, since they have more chances to take part in future exercises than any other class and fewer acquaintances among the seniors than either of the upper classes; but to show that the whole college is interested in freshmen athletics, '82 was willing to suffer the inconvenience the presence of the large crowd would occasion, if the freshmen were so successful as to win a game with Yale. The good effect, indeed, of this action of the senior class has already appeared in the excellence of the games played this year by the freshmen, compared with the playing of the class nines of former years. We hope that the freshmen will appreciate the necessity of the action of '82, and will accept the result with good-natured resignation.