The game of last Saturday should instill anew in the minds of the freshmen a determination to redeem, as far as it may be possible, the present languishing athletic renown of the crimson. That perfectly tangible reality, "Harvard indifference," cannot yet have brought its enervating influence to bear upon the members of '88, and they are not called upon to display as yet, the wonted apathy with regard to all athletic matters. It is to '88 that the college must look for a final effort against a clear score of defeats. The past year has been the most disastrous to Harvard of any during the entire history of college sports. In foot ball, lacrosse, base ball, rowing, and tennis, we have met signal and crushing defeat. It was with the utmost difficulty that the cup was brought back, and the present aspects do not favor the assumption that even this will be repeated this year without great efforts. The personnel of the freshman eleven is such that good earnest work will have every chance of gaining its just recompense-a victory over Yale. Of course, nothing could be more natural than for all concerned to utterly neglect any outside pressure that may be brought to bear, and consider all that may be said upon the subject as wholly unnecessary. However that may be, the truth still remains that Yale '88 can only be defeated by a steady determination to succeed, joined with the most uninterrupted conscientious work.