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Communications.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I think it is only fair that the college at large should know how unfairly the freshman foot-ball team is treated by the class. The members of its team have worked hard and faithfully all the fall and now when their important game has come, the game with the Yale freshmen, the members of '91 refuse to accompany their eleven to New Haven and support it by cheering. So few men go to New Haven to-day that the number is not sufficient to influence the railroads to offer special rates. I have been in college but a short time and consequently know little of the customs or the place, but from all I have heard from upper-classmen, I should think that it was the duty of the freshman class to support their team in every possible way, not only with money, but by individual exertions. How can a team be expected to do well unless it sees that its class is interested and anxious for its success? I do not like to accuse my own class of selfishness, but I certainly think there is some reason for such a charge, for there are plenty of men well able to bear the expenses of the trip, who intend to stay in Cambridge and let their team win if it can. They may at least know whom to blame, if their team is beaten. '91.

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