The lacrosse match on Saturday was doubly gratifying. Besides being a victory for Harvard, which counts one for the college championship, the game showed plainly that lacrosse has made great advance since last year. A greater surety and dexterity marked the individual play of both twelves, and the team work showed a decided improvement. The game is now being played among the colleges with something like the skill with which it is played in Canada. What has been one of the chief difficulties with lacrosse as a spectator's game is the irregularity of the positions of the players. Unless a person is acquainted with the game, the players are apt to seem jumbled. The more scientific the game becomes, the easier it is of course for the spectator to see why the different positions are taken, and after all there is a charm about the irregularity of positions which is in great contrast to the machine-like regularity of the base-ball field. At all events, the improvement in lacrosse among the colleges is gratifying, especially as there is every prospect that Harvard will be able to maintain her position of last year.