The freshman nine is now at work in the gymnasium, and we urge upon all candidates the necessity of regular attendance and careful work. The prospect of the freshman nine, judging from the number and excellence of the candidates, is certainly very favorable for success, if the men are constant and energetic. There is little need for us to remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having in prospect a seat on the far-famed fence.