That "Misery loves Company" is an old saying, and one which contains much truth, our present feelings now lead us to reassert. We have always supposed that whatever was Yale could not be Harvard, and whatever was Harvard could not be Yale. This supposition has given us both joy and sorrow. The latter feeling has been especially prominent in athletics, and the way in which athletics should be supported. Yale enthusiasm, and Harvard indifference have formed the two pictures which have been so often placed side by side, that the comparison might be the more marked by the just opposition. A mingled feeling of joy and sadness, joy because "misery loves company," and sadness because we pity anyone as badly off as we are,- now comes upon us as we learn the distance which separates Cambridge from New Haven, has done much to lend enchantment to the stories of Yale enthusiasm. Lacrosse, which has had a very successful, although short career at Yale, has been obliged to suspend active participation in college sports because of pecuniary embarrassment, and the name of Yale has been dropped from the members of the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association. This is not the only exception to the general theory, for were it so, it might justly be claimed that this single exception proved the rule. But we understand from reliable sources that many of the organizations at our sister college, (if we may call such masculine rival as Yale by this term), are only a little better off than is the lacrosse association. It would seem therefore that the stories of Yale enthusiasm, passing from mouth to mouth, have become greatly exaggerated in their transmission, or else that the year 1885 is to be made memorable by a change in the Yale spirit. The fact, however, that Yale enthusiasm, and Harvard indifference have been drawn more closely together, is no apology or excuse for the latter. The standard of the one has not been lowered, the standard of the other has not been raised. Let us then, if possible, bring the two more closely together by raising our own standard, and not waiting for a still further lowering of the other, for if we do, we may wait in vain.