There is cause for great congratulation that the College Base-ball League has been formed. The movement for an improvement in college base-ball has been favored by us from the first and our opinion was but one in many. Every lover of the national game must read the account published on our first page to-day with satisfaction and delight. Hereafter there will be no doubt about the best nine in the League. Four games with each club will settle the superiority, if there is any to be settled. Our friends in New York will not be able any longer to point to us and say that Harvard is afraid to admit Columbia. Columbia has been admitted and we venture to say that there is not a Harvard man in existence who is not glad of the fact. Her victories last year put her above the other college nines in public opinion. but it was far from proven that she had the best team. Every student in Cambridge is eager to see his college nine cross bats with her again and thereby obtain an opportunity to wipe out the defeat of last year.

But Harvard is at a great disadvantage in base-ball - first, owing to the late coming of spring here, when compared with the country near New York, and, secondly, in the edict of the faculty forbidding contests with professionals, an advantage which our friends in the College League take good care to make the most of. To counterbalance these fundamental drawbacks, Harvard has a great work before her, and if she gains her aim now, higher honor will be awarded her energy and perseverance.