We are sorry to learn that the freshman foot-ball team is still heavily in debt, in spite of the fact that the eleven acquitted itself so splendidly in the contest with Yale. One of the first principles that should be inculcated in freshmen classes here is that all debts honorably acquired in providing for the necessities of athletic teams should be paid ungrudgingly, especially when a man has worked so hard and faithfully in bringing victory to a class whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time, the career of '91 has given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need not be surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging of their eleven (the "finest), ought certainly to have the self-respect to meet the expenses of a victorious team, or enjoy the reputation of unparalleled selfishness and lethargy.