And now another excuse comes from Yale for "crawling" in the freshman game with Harvard. This time it is on the score of expense. The management was afraid that enough money would not be taken at the gate to defray the expenses of the game and so of course the game had to be given up. In this straightforward, manly mode of procedure, Yale is not to be blamed. Oh, no. She simply followed the rule which always prevails in such circumstances. Thousands of such instances might be given. For years it has been the custom for Harvard or Yale or any other college, if any doubt was felt in regard to the pecuniary success of a foot ball or base ball game which had been regularly arranged, to simply notify the captain of the visiting team that the game would be given up. In fact the mere notification of postponement is not always considered necessary, never, we believe, by the Yale freshman. So at last the prolific excuse-making Yale freshmen have found an excuse which the whole world will be only too ready to acknowledge perfectly just and fair. And yet we cannot but wonder at the apparent disappearance of Yale enthusiasm. "Where," will be asked, "is that interest in athletics of which Yale is so proud?" Why was there any doubt as to the gate receipts? Can Harvard indifference have found a foothold at New Haven?