The athletic teams have now time to start in with a will and with that spirit which shows a genuine determination to win. This spirit needs, perhaps, to be defined at Harvard, for it is perfectly apparent that until lately we, as a body of students, have not had the least idea of what it means. The idea conveyed by this term is not that we should sit down and spend our time in idle gossip over our "prospects"; it does not mean that we should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because we feel sure of a victory before the teams have met. It means that we should go to work and stay at work and not leave a stone unturned up to the moment of the contest. Theories are at best merely in the air; it is hard work which is the whole matter. Graduates have said this and undergraduates have felt it, but until lately the inertness of men has made it impossible for a coach to accomplish what he desired, and Harvard has been beaten.

Our candidates for athletic honors must get acquainted with the right idea of work; they must start in with it in mind, and devote all their energies to doing their whole duty. This is not a mere harangue, without a purpose,-it expresses what everyone connected with Harvard has longed to see for many years, a body of athletes at Cambridge going to work with a determination to do every thing to win.