The Yale News says that now that the 250th anniversary celebration is over, the Harvard CRIMSON will renew its attack upon the freshman eleven. The News is mistaken. We will do nothing of the sort. The playing of the freshmen during the last week has been such as to breathe new courage into any one who might have believed that they were past redemption. In fact the whole eleven seem to have imbibed the fervor and enthusiasm of the recent festivities, and to have settled down to work with all the determination of a typical Yale eleven. In truth, we have heard the last of the accusation, "lack of sand," which has been so thoughtlessly hurled at the members of the ninety foot-ball team. There is now no more need of complaint. Let the New Haven men beware, for "We're going to beat Yale." Now a word to the News. We recognize the peculiar ability which the New Haven journal has always displayed in carping at what claims to be "Harvard," and therefore we are little surprised that when a lack of copy stares the editor in the face he should criticise Harvard. If the CRIMSON has displayed energy enough to silence for once the sneers of a Yale paper, she has accomplished what has been done but seldom in the memory of man.

We recognize the apparent dearth of news at New Haven, but feel assured that the near approach of the annual foot-ball quarrel will relieve the anxious editors. So far as our advice to the freshman eleven is concerned, any comment from Yale will be gladly received, as the wearers of the blue have ever shown themselves so highly gentlemanly, so thoroughly manly in their support of their athletic teams that Yalensian support has become a proverbial expression of victory.