A report has reached us that the reason why Andover forfeited the games with our eleven lay in the fact that she was persuaded by certain friends that the Harvard eleven favored Exeter and would smash the life out of Andover in order to give the former school a better chance in the contest with the latter. Such a report as this deserves no refutation, but the cause of it is perhaps deeper than would appear at first glance. That athletic boys are persuaded to renounce their choice in choosing a college is well known, but this means appears to us as a new and quite unique innovation.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
