In marked contrast with the attitude of the News on the question of playing the first freshman ball game at Cambridge this year, is the editorial in the Courant on the same subject. The Courant is always sensible and conservative, and for that reason we take it for granted that it better represents the feeling of the college on the subject. Says the Courant :

"If the Harvard men can neither be convinced of the many advantages accruing from playing the first game here, nor be sufficiently moved by appeals to their aesthetic natures to spare one of our customs, it is but one more reason why our freshmen should put forth their best efforts to win. In view of the importance of that game to the Yale freshmen, it is to be hoped that it may be played here. If, however, such an arrangement cannot be made, brace, '87, and show your rivals on their own grounds that if the custom of playing the game here must be broken, the other and more important one, that of winning the game, cannot be taken from you."

We hope that our freshmen will feel that it is their duty not only to break the record in regard to playing the first game at New Have, but to prevent their ambitious rivals from perching on the far-famed fence for once in many years.