The 'varsity football team leave the square this afternoon at three o'clock to take the train for New York for the game with Cornell. We feel that the students have every confidence in the team, and we suggest that they impress this fact upon Captain Waters and his men by sending them off today with a series of rousing cheers. With the beginning of this month the time between us and the great contest takes a long jump and we seem very much nearer to it than we did on the last day of October. It is a question of weeks and days now, and no longer a question of months. Every sign of confidence and regard which the students can give the team now means so much more zeal and earnestness in the work of the individual players. We can repeat here what we said some time ago, that no man in the University who wants to see Harvard win at Springfield can, with any show of manliness, contribute to any spirit of despondency or lack of confidence which may get a hold here in these remaining weeks. No game is lost till it is played; but a game may be partially won before it is played. We are confident that today a representative crowd will start the team on its way in a very cheerful, happy frame of mind.