The University and Freshman nines have an opportunity to-day to stop the wild course of victories which has been entered upon by the New Haven athletes this year. In order to accomplish so worthy an object, labor and perseverance of a most exalted kind is necessary, as little short of supernatural power will bring upon Yale to-day the two defeats which we so earnestly desire. Harvard has five hundred more students than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event of to-day's game prove that energy, not the best material, can win at base-ball.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
