It has been a long time since sufficient interest in base-ball prevailed among the students to allow the classes to carry through successfully a class series of games. This year has witnessed an unprecedented enthusiasm in the national game. And the enthusiasm bids fair to last through the season. The cups which are offered by the CRIMSON have aroused an interest among the various scrub nines, which bids fair to surpass that in the class contests. Some very close playing has been shown by the contesting teams, and many men hitherto uninterested in base-ball have shown themselves to be excellent material for the class teams. This series of contests is an exceptionally wise movement on the part of the base-ball management, and it bids fair not only to place in the field many players who can at any moment be called upon to fill vacancies in the championship teams, but to arouse an interest in our 'Varsity nine which will not die out until the championship is again brought back to Harvard.