It is now definitely settled that there will be no Yale-Harvard foot-ball game this season. Yale has refused to accept any proposition made by our management in regard to the regular championship game, insisting that Harvard should play on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day, even though she knew that that was impossible through no fault of our own. She has therefore forced us to forfeit the championship game. In doing this she has willfully overlooked the assurance given by Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill of last year's team.

Our management, having been obliged to forfeit the championship game then offered to play an exhibition game in Cambridge. This concession was met with the surly reply, "We cannot consider the question of an exhibition game." What may be the reasons of the Yale management for this rejection of a fair offer, we can only conjecture. If it is because she wishes to humiliate Harvard she has wasted her discourtesy. If it is because she does not need the financial aid which an exhibition game would give her, she is better off than we has reason to think she is.

In the next place, our management, wishing to bring about the game with Yale if it were possible to do so, telegraphed the following message to Captain Corbin early yesterday morning: "Would you be willing to play even in New Haven? Answer at once." Up to the time of going to press no reply had been received, which, in itself is an act of egregious discourtesy on Yale's part. It is too late now for the eleven to go to New Haven, therefore there will be no game this year.

In the interests of fair play we are sorry that this thing has happened. But at all events our management is clearly absolved from all blame in the matter. They have acted as fairly and reasonably as their dignity and the necessity of the case would allow. They could scarcely allow themselves to be unjustly trampled upon.

To the captain and members of the team itself we would say that the college recognizes and appreciates their whole-hearted efforts and hard work throughout the foot-ball season. It is naturally a disappointment to them, as to us, not to meet their old antagonists, but they have done the best they could, and we thank them just as much as if they had won the championship. Their faithful training and solid, hard work have set an example which future teams would do well to follow.