The foot-ball world has been subject to a prolonged quarrel between Yale and Princeton which is not only very tiresome in itself but more than that is entirely unnecessary. Two years ago the game played in New York resulted in a draw which caused a violent discussion between the college papers of Yale and Princeton. This left the question in such a tangled shape that it is presumptuous for any one to express an opinion of the championship of that year. Twelve months ago, the Princeton Faculty forbade the Princeton eleven to play in New York. The Constitution of the Foot-ball Association says that the game between the two leading clubs shall be played in New York. Under these circumstances Princeton was compelled to accede to the demand that New Haven be the place for the game "although Yale would much have preferred to play in New York" as the Yale News says. The excitement has been renewed this year much to the disgust of the impartial observers. Yale has said that she will not play at Princeton this year although in all equity she is bound to do so. The editorial from the Princetonian published in another column gives us the Princeton side of the question. We advise all our readers to peruse it carefully. It is to be hoped that the present querulous attitude of Yale will soon give place to one dictated by straightforward judgement, and that on Thursday she will present her eleven at Princeton to compete with the champion team. If she does not, it is gratifying to know that the Inter-collegiate Association will bestow the championship of '89 where it will then belong. We wish that it could quiet once for all the babbling that will inevitably begin on the day after Thanksgiving.

A communication which we publish in another column brings to the the front once more the almost threadbare subject of the freshman eleven. Our correspondent has spoken earnestly and with fearlessness. We can do no better than to voice the sentiments which are evidently the cause of his writing to us. The disgrace to the college of having men who are in training for an inter-collegiate contest participate in the early morning festivities subsequent to the ball in question cannot be passed over in silence. The performances of the men who are trying for positions on the freshman eleven when regarded as a class - there are notable exceptions - have been such as to merit contempt of every Harvard man, but this last escapade is by far the most disgusting of all. On Saturday, it is expected to play the game with Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter-collegiate foot-ball arena, has made an round which we can all view with pride and satisfaction, but the freshman have done nothing but bring dishonor upon their class and their college.

As for dropped men, and the contingency of a game with Yale there can but little be said. We can only hope that those men who entered with '89 and who are now catalogued with '90 will have the manhood to step forward and do what they can to save the college from bearing the burden of any more freshman foot-ball antics.