The Yale News, in a recent editorial, severely criticises our freshman for the delay in arranging the '87 game, and naturally attempts to lay the whole blame upon our side. It says : "They now propose to play '87 at Providence on the Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale has gone all the way to Cambridge." We know that the management of our freshman team is doing all in its power to arrange this game and is as anxious as Yale that the game should be played as soon as possible. The objection which the News urges as to the time is trifling, as very few freshmen would be deterred from witnessing the game on account of the so-called Thanksgiving recess. The objection to the place for playing the game is rather remarkable when we remember that it is really Yale's turn to come up here. In '85's freshman year an arrangement was made that the game should be played alternately at the two colleges and Yale came up here for that year. In '86, everything was arranged for going down to Yale, the date was fixed, but suddenly Yale found that the game could not be played on the day agreed upon, and having broken her agreement, came up here to prevent the game from being forfeited. It is, thus, according to the original arrangement, Yale's turn to come to Cambridge. Our freshmen, however, not insisting upon this, have consented to play the game upon neutral grounds and suggested Providence, which although rightly nearer Harvard than it is to Yale, is certainly more nearly equi-distant than Hartford.

It will thus be seen that most of the objections come from Yale and to use the very works of the News "one can clearly see where the responsibility for the delay lies." We understand that our management is now endeavoring to make arrangements for playing the game at Springfield, and we hope this place will meet with no objection on the part of Yale. This discussion, however, may be entirely irrelevant on account of the recent eccentric action of the athletic committee of the faculty, but we think the above explanation is due to the earnest endeavors of the freshman to arrange this game.