The playing of the candidates for the freshman nine this spring shows that they have a vast amount of work to do if they hope to make a respectable record. Their work in so unimportant a game as that of yesterday can hardly be taken as a fair estimate of what they can do; but it at least indicates that to succeed they must put far more zeal into their work. The listless way in which they played out the game was anything but encouraging.
What we have said in regard to the andidates for the freshman nine apies equally well to the men who hink they are trying hard for the new. The trouble with all Ninety-four's thletic teams at present is lack of earnestness. They do not seem to have acquired the first principles of the lessons which Harvard has been learning of late years. The freshmen know well enough what these lessons have been, and what the college now expects of its representatives. It is that spirit of earnest activity which is absolutely essential to success.
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