It is much to be deplored that our faculty looks with no lenient eye upon games with professional teams. Each one of our great rivals has this privilege and makes use of it to the utmost; and the benefit which they derive from these games is shown immediately by the marked improvement in their playing. It is a well-known fact that one can acquire more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine is compelled to meet. To know that you can conquer, to feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important championship games. During the past two or three weeks Yale and Columbia have had a chance to perfect themselves by playing with such teams as the professional Newarks, New Yorks, Brooklyns, and Washingtons. These games have undoubtedly been productive of much good in pointing out weak points and in perfecting the strong points of our respective rivals. If we could have the benefit of games with the Bostons it would enhance our chances of winning one half.