Each step in the development of the 'varsity ball nine will be eagerly watched this year. The chances of success are so small that the thought of victory is likely to be ridiculed, especially by men not connected with the University, and it is a wonder if sometimes all effort does not seem hopeless to the captain. And yet there has been no falter in the work spent upon the nine, and we are confident that there never will be. This staunchness of purpose, this carefulness over plans, this determination in action at so trying a time is precisely the thing needed, and there is not one of us but must be stirred into enthusiasm over it. If the charge that Harvard has no grit needed an answer, none more conclusive could be given than the work of Captain Wiggin.