The time is now very close at hand when the freshman nine will be definitely selected from the candidates at present competing for positions on the team. It is yet too early to predict with any degree of certainty as to the likely result of the annual contest with Yale, for no games, which alone can test the true worth of a team. have yet been played. The first game of the season is to occur at Andover next Saturday, and it may be well to remind before hand those who will represent '91, that they are expected to play ball for something far more important than the mere "fun" of it. Work, hard and conscientious work must be enforced. By no other method can a freshman nine obtain the coveted championship. When the nine don their uniforms for the first time, they must understand that it means something else besides the desire of their classmates to see them look "pretty." It was only by continual practice and strict attention to duty that '89 won two straight games from Yale, and if '91 would follow her example, the same conditions must be imposed. Let the score at Andover show that the freshman nine may, this year, be relied upon.