Last spring there was an organized attempt to bring about a more cordial state of feeling between Harvard and Yale in athletic matters. This attempt was urged by men who had the interests of Harvard and of Yale at heart. Time and consideration were devoted by them to the attainment of the object in view, and there seemed to be fair reasons to believe that success would come in the venture. The Advocate and the CRIMSON joined in this movement and strenuously insisted on admittedly authentic information before anything of an adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams met on more friendly terms than they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance of the good feeling begun in the contest for that championship; but either the chill of fall weather or the strength of the Harvard eleven has blasted the feeble growth which the spring had nurtured so tenderly, and now strife has returned.

But strife has returned before. True. But now it has not returned to be driven away by any soft words of conciliation. It has come to stay until the spirit of Yale College has risen to a level of manliness high enough to cast its disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these men have done must portray their natures on the athletic fields as well. As we hear no words from Yale but those of praise, we have all reason to suppose that this spirit is the guiding one in the mind of the New Haven student. For his sake as well as for the reputation of his college we hope to see a re-creation. The spring weather may bring it.