The members of the freshman eleven have made the mistake which most freshman teams make sooner or later in their career. They have fallen into the delusion that they are practicing each day for their own amusement and do not seem to realize that they are to turn out a team that must meet the Yale freshmen. Because the error is a common one, it is not the less blamable It is for the freshmen to decide at once whether they will begin to make an earnest effort to win the coming contest by hard practice each day, or whether they will indulge in a halfhour of playfulness, such as they enjoyed yesterday afternoon, and let the shame of defeat show them the result of shilly-shallying and half-hearted practice. It they have regard for their own future prospects in college, not to mention the honor of their class and the university, there is but one course for them to follow. They must put an earnestness of purpose into their work such as has not marked their practice heretofore. Whether the present disposition of the eleven is the fault of the captain or the men we do not stop to enquire. If a change is not apparant soon the blame will fall on those who have deserved it. The team has a month still in which to redeem itself, and show itself worthy of the class and college it is to represent. If its members are wise, they will use the time to good purpose.