THE first baseball game of the season on Saturday was as good as could be expected. It was hardly a game to test the present condition of the team. The Andover nine gave them little chance for fielding, and the ease with which the Harvard players ran bases was rather a weakness of the visiting team than a sign of great proficiency on our part. The batting was by all odds the best feature in Harvard's playing, but it was confined to so few and with comparatively inexperienced pitchers in the box, that its significance is not great. It is a point worth noticing that the runs made were less, by about a half, than in the game with the same team last year. The slowness with which the game dragged on was very tiresome and, although not entirely due to Harvard was partly accounted for by her to deliberate playing.

These are all faults which one expects to see in a team at the beginning of the year. They are not discouraging, but severe rather to point out the direction in which careful coaching is particularly necessary. The nine is composed of men who are as good individually at least, as any other lot of nine men picked from one college. We shall probably have as coach Colonel Winslow, to whose effort a great part of the success of last year's nine is due. We start the season then very auspiciously and improvement ought to be rapid. The games on the spring trip are with strong nines, which will give the team excellent practice, one may expect then that the faults now so apparent will be far less prominent on the return of the nine to Cambridge. In fact each game for a month or more ought to show improvement in some direction. To-day, even, the playing should be better than on Saturday and as the game is with a stronger club one can form a more accurate judgment of the merits of the team.

The following-names students have been chosen by the faculty of Dartmouth College to represent the junior class in the prize speaking at next commencement: J. E. Duffy, Franklin Falls, N. H; F. W. Hodgdon, Haverhill; S. E. Burroughs, Bow, N. H.: from Chandler School of Science, W. A. Foster, Concord: Talmadge Hamilton, Milwankee, Wis.; G. W. Day, Plymouth, N. H.

The Society of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, has decided to offer a prize to any undergraduate who, in open competition this spring makes or surpasses the following standard: 100-yard dash, 10 2-5s; 220 yard dash, 23s; 440-yard dash, 51 1-2s; 880-yard run, 2m 3s: 1-mile run, 4m. 40s; 120-yard hurdle. 17s; 220-yard hurdle, 26s; running broad jump, 21 ft.; running high jump, 5 ft. 10 in; pole vault, 10 ft. 6 in; 2 mile bicycle race, 5m 50s.; putting 16 pound shot, 38 ft.; throwing 16-pound hammer, 90 ft.; mile walk, 7m. 20s.