The captain of the football eleven, in adopting the plan of training the candidates for next year's team, which is described in another column, has made a departure from the methods that have prevailed heretofore, which, it seems to us, must bring forth good results next fall. Harvard opens so late in the autumn that the time for training the eleven is much shorter than it ought to be. Training in the winter and spring, therefore, calculates to develop muscles called into play in foot-ball, and will be of especial value to men who intend to try for the eleven next year. The training the men go through, however, is valuable for its own sake as well as for developing men for the eleven, and furnishes, there-fore, a desirable course of exercise for men who are not doing other team work. The fact that a man knows nothing of football should be no barrier to his joining this class. On the contrary, Mr. Cumnock is eager to have anyone who would like to try for the team in the fall join the class and take advantage of the training offered. We hope men will embrace this opportunity, and that these well-directed efforts of the captain of the eleven may be met more than half way by the college.