There is no need of calling attention to the second freshman game with Yale which is to be played this afternoon on Jarvis. Every freshman will be there and a great many upper class-men will add dignity by their presence. We do not know whether or no any of the freshman faculty will lend their support by attending the game - as is said to have been the case at Yale - but we do feel confident that there will be a large enough crowd to give the freshmen all the encouragement they need. We expect them to make a desperate effort to win, remembering that this is their last chance to break the record, so long unbroken, of Yale's freshman victories. Let each man imitate the Yale freshmen and "step to the bat with tightly drawn muscles and determined face," remembering that, although he has not the possession of a fence or his college future in his hands, as was the case with the Yale freshmen, success will be reward enough.

But even if the freshmen do not win the game they can rest assured that they are not placed in the unenviable position of the defeated Yale freshmen. What that position is, it is almost impossible for a Harvard man to understand. The Courant confesses that, in case of defeat, the existence of the freshmen throughout their college life would have been a miserable one. "As to the 'result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man, and defeat is not popular. Like the Spartan mother, we say, 'return with your shield or on it.' " Yes, Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man. This was proved by the fact that "the smallest man in college" was picked out to bear the blame of her recent defeat at New London and was obliged to give up his studies at that seat of learning "because they made it too hot for him." But, fortunately for Harvard, such sentiments do not prevail here. No man has ever been obliged to leave Cambridge because his athletic record was not so good as was expected of him. Our love of athletics has never carried us so far. We can assure the freshman nine that we feel convinced that they will do their best this afternoon and if they win or lose they will be supported by the confidence and sympathy of their classmates and the college.

The thanks of the college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when the mind has been afflicted with these evils and the body with Memorial hash, when, despite all this, one settles down for some more hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude of all who have been so favored. How much better it is that we should pass the evening listening to the cheerful and familiar sound of whistling, singing, cheering, shouting, explosion of torpedoes and snapping of crackers, than that we should wear ourselves out by a long grind in the evening after the labors of the day. Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit in which they are offered will indeed be greatly benefited thereby, but, unfortunately, there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work as not to appreciate such disinterested generosity is a poor, senseless being who deserves the contempt of all good people.