Whenever there appears at Harvard anything which will tend to keep alive a spirit of gentlemanly rivalry among the classes and which will add a wholesome element of fun and sport to the life of the college, it should be warmly welcomed. At present we have such an influence alive, working through the class championship games, especially in base ball. The howling crowds on Jarvis, the miscellaneous music, and the cannon too, all play an important part in keeping Havard from being a place where the life of the college is all shut up in recitation halls and reading rooms, and in bringing out and keeping alive something which can perhaps best be described as college life. In this way the class games are a wholesome feature of Harvard life, and if kept within proper bounds will continue to have a good influence in the college.

There is always danger, however, that anything like this will be carried too far, and the game yesterday went to show that a halt should be called already. Certain means of rattling the players, testing their coolness and nerve are perfectly legitimate; but let the interference stop there. After all, the object is to see which team can play the better and steadier game, and any practices which prevent a team from playing its best (beyond the practices of legitimate rattling) are distinctly to be discouraged. Using mirrors to throw the sunlight into the players' eyes, a practice which was fortunately stopped after the first few innings, is going decidedly too far. The teams, we repeat, should not be physically prevented from playing their best.