In the Globe of yesterday morning there appeared the usual predictions as to the winner of the Mott Haven cup. In the estimation of the writer of that article Harvard is sure to win, while Yale has no chance at all. Now we have sufficient faith in the officers of the H. A. A. to know that they are not likely to be taken in by such reports, but nevertheless a word of warning will not be amiss. We all know the old cry which goes up every year to the effect that the Yale crew or the Yale nine has no chance at all; but we also know that Harvard has to strain every muscle to win a victory over the boys in blue. Such words as those printed in the Globe yesterday are no doubt very pleasant and encouraging to all Harvard men. But at the same time they must be swallowed cum grano salis. It will not do to trust too much to such prognostications: they are generally false ones. Over-confidence is often the ruin of a really good athlete, and so we trust that the efforts of no candidate for the Mott Haven team will be slackened through too much faith in newspaper reports. Harvard must strain every nerve to win that cup this year. and she must not be allowed to lose through carelessness. A word the wise is sufficient.